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2022 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

12. Analyzing the Effect of Choice and Availability in Healthcare on Health Outcomes in Canada – A Pre-COVID-19 Environment

Authors : Rohit Narayan, Satyendra Narayan

Published in: How COVID-19 is Accelerating the Digital Revolution

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This research hypothesizes that greater availability of healthcare services, and greater choice in healthcare facilities results in better health when controlling for a variety of socio-economic factors within the Canadian context. This research will model access to healthcare services using density of general and specialist physicians relative to population size, and the geographic density of healthcare facilities. Choice in healthcare is modeled by the number of healthcare facilities in each health region, when normalized by the population in that health region.
Various health outcomes will be used as benchmarks to test this hypothesis, including self- reported general health, self-reported mental health, influenza immunization rates, body mass index (BMI), and incidence of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension.
From the empirical results, choice in the healthcare system does not have an impact on the selected health outcomes. Increased availability of healthcare generally improves health outcomes, but this is dependent on the health outcome in question, and the provincial region being analyzed.

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Metadata
Title
Analyzing the Effect of Choice and Availability in Healthcare on Health Outcomes in Canada – A Pre-COVID-19 Environment
Authors
Rohit Narayan
Satyendra Narayan
Copyright Year
2022
Book
How COVID-19 is Accelerating the Digital Revolution

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-98166-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-98167-9

Copyright Year: 2022

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98167-9_12

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