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             2003 Reports:

  • Backgrounder responding to government planning document, "BC Liberals break election promise: confidential government plans for long-term care closures radical by Canadian standards."
    Download the PDF (Sept 2003) 
  • CCPA Pharmacare Backgrounder
    Download the PDF (Apr 2003) 
  • Health Accord:
    Download the PDF (Feb 2003) 
  • IBM Poll on Canadian Attitudes toward Health Care:
    Download the PDF (Jan 2003)
  • UN Covenant on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
         * BC CEDAW Report (Jan. 2003)    * UN CEDAW Committee Report (Jan 2003) 

             2002 Reports:

  • McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics News: "Patients more likely to die in private for-profit dialysis centres, major study finds."
    Download the PDF (Nov 19, 2002) 
  • Eldercare Report:
    Download the PDF (Sept 2002)
  • British Medical Journal News: "Mortality higher at for-profit hospitals"
    Download the PDF (June 2, 2002) 
  • A systematic review and metaanalysis of studies comparing mortality rates of private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals. "Canadians are engaged in an intense debate about the relative merits of private for-profit versus private not-for-profit health care delivery. To inform this debate, we undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing the mortality rates of private for-profit hospitals and those of private not-for-profit hospitals."
    Download the PDF (May 18, 2002) 
  • Background Analysis of Money in the Health Accord:
    Download the PDF --March 31, 2003