Skip to main content
Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne de Santé Publique logoLink to Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne de Santé Publique
letter
. 2017 Jul 1;108(4):e456. doi: 10.17269/CJPH.108.6386

Tinkering in the dark: Critical knowledge gaps about how to fund public health in Canada

J Ross Graham 122,222,, Shannon L Sibbald 322,422
PMCID: PMC6972362  PMID: 29120323

The content is available as a PDF (36.9 KB).

References

  • 1.Sutherland J, Hellsten E. Integrated Funding: Connecting the Silos for Healthcare We Need. Toronto, ON: C.D. Howe Institute; 2017. [Google Scholar]
  • 2.Khan AI. Resource Allocation in the Public Health Sector: Current Status and Future Prospects. Waterloo, ON: University of Waterloo; 2013. [Google Scholar]
  • 3.Guyon A, Hancock T, Kirk M, MacDonald M, Neudorf C, Sutcliffe P, et al. The weakening of public health: A threat to population health and health care system sustainability. Can J Public Health. 2017;108(1):e1–6. doi: 10.17269/CJPH.108.6143. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 4.Dutt M. Healthy Debate. 2013. How public health is funded in Canada and why that needs to change. [Google Scholar]
  • 5.Canadian Institute for Health Information. National Health Expenditure Trends, 1975 to 2016. Ottawa, ON: CIHI; 2016. [Google Scholar]
  • 6.Ballinger G. Refining estimates of public health spending as measured in National Health Expenditure Accounts: The Canadian experience. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2007;13(2):115–20. doi: 10.1097/00124784-200703000-00006. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 7.Minister’s Expert Panel on Public Health. Public Health Within an Integrated Health System. Toronto, ON: Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care; 2017. [Google Scholar]
  • 8.Guyon A, Perreault R. Public health systems under attack in Canada: Evidence on public health system performance challenges arbitrary reform. Can J Public Health. 2016;107(3):e326–29. doi: 10.17269/CJPH.107.5273. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  • 9.CBC News. Carolyn Bennett ‘agrees with’ MMIWG inquiry reset request. 2017. [Google Scholar]

Articles from Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne de Santé Publique are provided here courtesy of Springer

RESOURCES