Analyzing the Effect of Choice and Availability in Healthcare on Health Outcomes in Canada – A Pre-COVID-19 Environment
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Book Chapter
Description
This research hypothesizes that greater availability of healthcare services, and greater choice in healthcare facilities results in better health when controlling for a variety of socio-economic factors within the Canadian context. This research will model access to healthcare services using density of general and specialist physicians relative to population size, and the geographic density of healthcare facilities. Choice in healthcare is modeled by the number of healthcare facilities in each health region, when normalized by the population in that health region.
Various health outcomes will be used as benchmarks to test this hypothesis, including self- reported general health, self-reported mental health, influenza immunization rates, body mass index (BMI), and incidence of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension.
From the empirical results, choice in the healthcare system does not have an impact on the selected health outcomes. Increased availability of healthcare generally improves health outcomes, but this is dependent on the health outcome in question, and the provincial region being analyzed.
ISBN
978-3-030-98167-9
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Springer, Cham
Keywords
Health economics, pre-COVID healthcare, healthcare access, health outcomes, Canadian healthcare, pre-COVID Canadian healthcare
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
Faculty
Faculty of Applied Science and Technology (FAST)
Copyright
© 2022 Rohit Narayan & Satyendra Narayan, under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
SOURCE Citation
Narayan, Rohit and Narayan, Satyendra, "Analyzing the Effect of Choice and Availability in Healthcare on Health Outcomes in Canada – A Pre-COVID-19 Environment" (2022). Books and Websites. 12.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/fast_books/12
Original Citation
Narayan, R., Narayan, S. (2022). Analyzing the effect of choice and availability in healthcare on health outcomes in Canada – A pre-COVID-19 environment. In Anandan, R., Suseendran, G., Chatterjee, P., Jhanjhi, N.Z., Ghosh, U. (eds.), How COVID-19 is accelerating the digital revolution (pp. 189-209). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98167-9_12
