Building worldly insights

Abstract

This article offers health leaders in Canada an opportunity to build a more worldly understanding of healthcare challenges. The focus is on post-conflict countries and island/small countries. Small and island countries often depend on other countries for their workforce and for specialist healthcare services. Conflict usually undermines if it doesn’t destroy a country’s healthcare system. Small and island countries offer opportunities for the majority of Canadian provinces and territories to develop new approaches from novel comparator countries, with which they may have more in common. Post-conflict countries offer an opportunity to consider the applicability of the determinants of policy and institutional failure to Aboriginal healthcare in Canada.