IHE In Your Pocket 2014. A Handbook of Health Economic Statistics

IHE In Your Pocket 2014 – a handbook of health economic statistics includes the most currently available data, presented in separate sections on the economic burden of illness, health care resources, health behaviours, health status and demographics, and health system performance.

IHE In Your Pocket was designed to provide a compact, comprehensive, and comparative overview of the economic aspects of the Canadian health care system. It has been revised every second year since 2006.

As in the earlier editions, we have adopted a broad, population health approach. We have substantially reorganized the 2014 edition. We divided data on the health care system into components. For each component, we provide the most important economic indicators which reflect capacity, investment, utilization, prices and costs, total expenditures and finance, on the supply side; and population characteristics, population behaviour, finance and indirect costs on the demand side.