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Health Care

Canadian Hospitals Rated by CBC
2013 survey.
CBC's Rate My Hospital report card graded nearly 240 acute-care hospitals across the country, providing a snapshot of how hospitals across the country are performing.
The ratings are based on information supplied by hospitals and reported by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
How Canada Performs: Health
Latest provincial and territorial rankings from the Conference Board of Canada.

Health Care in Canada
Published by CIHI since 2000. Provides an annual overview of the health care system and the health of Canadians with special reports from time to time on topics such as patient safety, volume-outcome relationships, appropriateness of care, seniors and aging.
Primer on Population Health
Published by the Association of Faculties of Medicine

Canada Health Act
The Canada Health Act (CHA or the Act) is Canada's federal legislation for publicly funded health care insurance.
Canada Health Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. C-6
The most recent version and wording of the complete act.

National Film Board
Multidisciplinary streaming video database spanning a wide range of subject areas.

Hospital City (Video Duration 47 minutes)
"Shot at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland, this documentary reveals the workings of a contemporary health-care facility. Accompanied by hospital staff, we travel through labs, pharmacies, supply rooms, operating theatres and patient rooms from the maternity ward to the morgue. As debate in Canada and the world rages over health care, Hospital City offers a moving, human portrait of the people whom the issues touch most closely."