Economic Burden of Illness in Canada, 1993

Acknowledgements

While the authors retain full responsibility for the content of this report, the following people deserve special mention for their contributions. Their expertise and comments were greatly appreciated.

National health expenditures in Canada

Mary Paquette, Lourdès Flor
Formerly of Health Information Division, Policy, Planning and Information Branch, Health Canada

Geoff Ballinger, Gilles Fortin, Paul Kasimatis
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)

Frank Fedyk, André Grennon
Health Systems and Policy Division, Policy and Consultation Branch, Health Canada

General comments on methodology

Peter Coyte, Carl Asche
Department of Health Administration, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Michael Wolfson
Institutions and Social Statistics Branch, Statistics Canada

Phyllis Will
Social and Economic Studies Division, Statistics Canada

Sylvie Stachenko
Disease Prevention Division, Systems for Health Directorate, Health Promotion and Programs Branch (HPPB), Health Canada

Stephanie Wilson, Thomas Lips
Mental Health Unit, Systems for Health Directorate, HPPB, Health Canada

Deborah Jordan, Howard Morrison, Margaret de Groh, Ken Johnson
Cancer Bureau, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC), Health Protection Branch (HPB), Health Canada

Drug expenditures

Andrew Armstrong, Dave Blaker
Bureau of Drug Policy and Coordination, Drugs Directorate, HPB, Health Canada

Vern Hicks
Health Economics Consulting Services, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Physician care expenditures

Walter Thorne
Newfoundland Medical Care Commission

Lorena Comeau, Derek Dinham
Nova Scotia Department of Health

Don Ross
Prince Edward Island Health and Community Services Agency

Marlene White
Manitoba Health

Patrick Melia
Saskatchewan Health

Ken Morrison, Larry Svenson
Alberta Health

Micheal Hsieh
British Columbia Ministry of Health and Minister Responsible for Seniors

Expenditures for hospital care and for other institutions

Rod Riley, Patricia Tully
Health Care Section, Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada

Gary MacDonald
Information Request Unit, Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada

Christine Proietti, Isabel Tsui
Canadian Institute for Health Information

Carol Silcoff
Mental Health Unit, HPPB, Health Canada

Health science research expenditures

Neil Morris
Communications and Informations Branch, Medical Research Council of Canada

Sona Sethi
Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa

Elizabeth Ryten, Dale Yeatman
The Association of Canadian Medical Colleges, Ottawa, Ontario

Mortality costs

Ted Miller
National Public Services Research Institute, Landover, Maryland, US

Réjean Lasnier
Household Surveys Division, Statistics Canada

William Chandler
National Accounts and Environment Division, Statistics Canada

Morbidity costs

Russell Wilkins, Gary Catlin, Patricia Tully, Jeanine Bustros
Health Statistics Division, Statistics Canada

John Dorland
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University

Michael Cassidy
The Ginger Group Consultants, Ottawa, Ontario

LCDC summer students

Allison Chang, University of Waterloo

Tracie Chen, McGill University

Brian Cheng, University of British Columbia

The authors would also like to acknowledge the following organizations for consenting to the use of their data for publication.

IMS Canada, Montreal office

Bureau of Drug Policy and Coordination
Drugs Directorate, HPB, Health Canada

The authors would also like to thank LCDC's Document Dissemination Division for editing and producing this document for printing as well as for posting on the World Wide Web site.

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