Canada 2015: Globalization & the Future of Canada's Health & Health Care
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Authors
Mendelson, M.
Divinsky, P.
Date
2003
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working paper
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en
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The purpose of this paper is to offer a perspective on this question by looking at the implications for Canada's health care system of global political and economic structures in the future - and specifically in 2015. How could Canada's health care system be affected by 'how the world goes' in the next decades?
Necessarily this is a highly speculative question. The objective here is not to provide anything resembling a definitive answer. We cannot predict the future. It is unlikely that any of these futures will ever occur as described. More likely, the future will be much like the present. Furthermore, we have at times taken the 'poetic license' of deliberately exaggerating potential changes, or at least over-estimating the pace of technological and political change, so as to be able to describe clearly and forcefully the direction of change and its implications. In short, sometimes 2015 may have become 2025 or even 2050. All of this is not meant so much to say what will be, as what could be, in an effort to stimulate consideration in a policy context of the relationship of our health system to global futures.
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© 2003 IIGR, Queen's University
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Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations