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Activity Number:
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321
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Health Policy Statistics
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| Abstract - #300113 |
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Title:
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A Comparative Analysis of Healthcare Service Utilization in the United States and Canada: Findings from the Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health
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Author(s):
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Claudia Sanmartin*+ and Debra Blackwell and Jane F. Gentleman and Michael Martinez and Nancy Ross and Jean-Marie Berthelot
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Companies:
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Statistics Canada and National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics and McGill University and Statistics Canada
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Address:
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R.H. Coats 24th Floor, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0T6, Canada
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Keywords:
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health care ; utilization ; access ; Canada ; United States
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Abstract:
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Canada and the U.S. employ strikingly different approaches to financing medical care for their citizenry. Canada has a single-payer plan in which all residents have government-sponsored health insurance coverage for physician visits and hospitalization. In contrast, in the U.S., most funding for health care services comes from insurance providers. The two countries are similar, however, regarding dental care and prescription drugs for which individuals depend on private insurance coverage. The Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health will be used to examine differences in the determinants of health care utilization between the two countries with a particular focus on the effects of health insurance coverage. The analysis will focus on services for which private insurance plays a role in the U.S. but not in Canada and for services for which private insurance plays a role in both countries. Descriptive statistics and multivariate analyses (linear and logistic regression methods) will be used to describe and model health care service utilization.
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