The fiscal burden of provincial government health spending across Canada

Summary

CHPI 2017 Health System Metrics Report.

This annual report measures the fiscal burden of government spending on healthcare across the provinces and offers policy options for improving the sustainability of Canada’s health system. Data for this edition were sourced from the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s (CIHI) National Health Expenditure Database and Statistics Canada covering the most recent available five full-calendar years from 2011 to 2015, using 2010 as a base year for growth calculations.