The North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (NAO) is a collaborative partnership of interested researchers, research organizations, governments, and health organizations promoting evidence-informed health system policy decision-making. Due to the high degree of health system decentralization in the United States and Canada, the NAO is committed to focusing considerable attention to state and provincial health systems and to creating a foundation for more systematic health system and policy comparisons among substates.
Featured
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Newfoundland and Labrador:
A Health System Profile
(now available in PDF)
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NAO Lecture Series: Alec Fraser (June 19, 2024) Recording available
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New Publication:
Implementing a Medication Switching Policy: Analysis of the Saskatchewan Biosimilars Initiative
New Publications
- Public health partnerships with faith-based organizations to support vaccination uptake among minoritized communities: A scoping review, PLOS Global Public Health
- Supporting the development of public health system performance indicators, NAO Rapid Review
- A Case Study of Public Health System Financing in British Columbia, NAO Case Study
New Book Chapter
- Canada’s health care system: the promises and challenges of a federated system in Research Handbook on Health Care Policy
News
- The Truth About Your Mouth, Zoomer TV [recording]
- Newsletter – May 2024, June 2024
Health System Profiles
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Canada Health System Review (2020)
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Mexico Health System Review (2020)
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United States Health System Review (2020)
The North American Observatory is hosted at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario. We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.