A penny saved is a lifetime earned: Changes in innovation and service delivery can help keep Canada’s public health care system affordable
Tuesday, October 30, 2012, 7 p.m.
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
RSVP: cafescientifique@cihr-irsc.gc.ca
Since its launch in 1962, our public health care system has been a major benefit to Canadians. But social changes over the past few decades have brought the survival of the system as it exists into question. Policy makers, health care providers and administrators now face challenges arising from an aging baby boomer generation, an economic recession, a rise in different chronic diseases, as well as the introduction and prevalence of costly new drugs for treatment.
What can be done to address these issues? Emerging technological innovations, new models of service delivery and different approaches to funding decisions are steps in the right direction.
Come find out what researchers are doing to help create and sustain an affordable health care system.
This event is hosted by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and its Institute of Health Services and Policy Research. Refreshments will be served. Space is limited.
Experts
Helen Angus
BA, MScPl
Associate Deputy Minister
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Tony Culyer
CBE, BA, FRSA, FMedSci
Professor, Full SGS Member
Research Chair
Health Policy and System Design
Institute of Health Policy,
Management and Evaluation
University of Toronto
Les Levin
MB, MD, FRCP (Lon), FRCPC
Vice President, Evidence Development & Standards
Health Quality Ontario
Moderator
Terry Sullivan, PhD
Chair, Board of the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health Care