In most developed countries, as the largest population cohorts approach the age of sixty‐
five, the impact of population aging on health care expenditures has become a topic of …

The recent growth of the home care sector combined with societal and demographic
changes have given rise to concerns about the adequacy of the supply of family and friend …

Analyses of population-based services and surveys in Canada from the early 1990s and
early 2000s indicate that younger and middle-aged family physicians carried smaller …

The mean costs of providing healthcare increase with age, but within every age/sex cohort
there is substantial variation. Moreover, this variation does not disappear over the users' …

Using a constructed week methodology, we analyzed media summaries for the type of
health discourse (health care delivery, disease-specific prevention, lifestyle risk factors …

The aim of this paper is to explore the consequences of demographic ageing on healthcare
demand in Slovenia for primary care, secondary care, hospital day-care treatments, and …

Background: Current perceptions of family physician (FP) shortages in Canada have
prompted policies to expand medical schools. Our objective was to assess how FP supply …

Physician spending is one of the fastest growing Canadian public sector health categories of
recent years but despite their recent growth physician numbers are a relatively small …

Abstract “Truth is the daughter of Time,” said mystery writer Josephine Tey. This point,
illustrated in her rehabilitation of the “villainous” King Richard III, is equally apt for a …

Home health services are often provided to people who are frail and may be reaching the
end of their lives. Their purpose is to help people remain in their own homes as long as …