BACKGROUND: There is concern that the aging of Canada's population will strain our
health care system. The authors address this concern by examining changes in the …

OBJECTIVE: To examine what role demographic factors and increases in physician fees
and utilization played in the rise in costs of physician services provided for elderly people in …

BACKGROUND: Policy-makers interested in the supply of doctors in Canada have recently
begun focusing attention on older physicians. This study informs the policy debate by …

Will the aging of Canada's population bankrupt the health care system? In this issue (see
pages 1555 to 1560) Dr. Marie Demers reports that the increase in physician service costs …

We analysed physician fee-for-service use in British Columbia from 1974-75 to 1985-86.
Over the study period use increased by 5.3% per year. This can be factored into increases …

The authors compared the growth of expenditures, prices, and volume and intensity of
physician services delivered to the elderly in the United States and Canada from 1987 to …

Use of medical services by the elderly population is increasing. While rising numbers of
elderly persons account for much of the overall increase, per capita increases in use of …

Canadians have expressed concern that access to a family physician (FP) has declined
precipitously. Yet FP-to-population ratios remained relatively stable over the last decade …

Conventional wisdom holds that Canada suffers from a physician shortage, yet expenditures
for physicians' services continue to increase rapidly. We address this apparent paradox …

Objective: To determine the influence of differing assumptions of population growth, visit
rates, prevalence of functional impairment, physician productivity, and hospitalization rates …