"Assessment of the Health System Performance in Ontario Major Cities (Canada)"

Abstract

"This study aims to provide evidence to support policymaking by assessing health system perfor mance in the province of Ontario, Canada, and its major cities (Toronto, Mississauga, Oakville, and Brampton). It reports on the performance of health care organizations and local health systems over the years 2012-2018. The performance indicators ana lyzed are grouped into two categories: health status and quality of service (Ontario Ministry of Health). The analysis reports health care waiting times for the year 2018, focusing on the most frequently re ported disease groups and procedures such as: pediatric, cancer, cardiac, orthopedic, eye, diagnos tic imaging, and emergency room. It also looks at government spending on health, the benchmark for surgical procedures, the number of physicians, the health status of the population, and rates of hospi talization and hospital admissions. As recommen dations, among policies to improve the health sys tem, the government should pay attention to health spending, increasing the number of doctors rather than beds, and introducing the privately-owned hos pitals that could coexist with the public ones."