Health Services Management Research > Volume 22, Number 3 > Pp. 136-139

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Google Scholar Articles by Tsasis, P. PubMed PubMed Citation Social Bookmarking                      What's this?

Chronic disease management and the home-care alternative in Ontario, Canada

Peter Tsasis ^*   

* School of Health Policy and Management; School of Administrative Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

E-mail: tsasis{at}yorku.ca

The pressure on our health-care system to deliver efficient, quality and cost-effective care is increasing. The debate on its sustainability is also expanding. These challenges can be managed with revisions to our health-care policy frameworks governing how and what public health-care services are delivered. Chronic disease management and home care can together ease many of the present and future pressures facing the health-care system. However, the current level of investment and the present policy are not effectively supporting movement in this direction. Updating the Canada Health Act to reflect the realities of our health-care system, and developing policies to support the areas of interdisciplinary teamwork and system integration are needed to facilitate chronic disease management and home care in Canada. This article lays out the challenges, highlights the impending issues and suggests a framework for moving forward.

CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?