Morris L. Barer

TL;DR: This is a fascinating collection of essays exploring "why some people are healthy and others not," from a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives that challenges the widespread belief that health care is the most important determinant of health and argues for a more comprehensive and coherent understanding of the determinants of health.

TL;DR: The relation between direct to consumer advertising and patients' requests for prescriptions and the relation between patients' request and prescribing decisions was examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of age and proximity to death on costs of both acute medical care and nursing and social care were assessed, and if this relationship was stable in a time of rapid change in health care expenditure.

TL;DR: Age is less important than proximity to death as a predictor of costs, however, the pattern of social and nursing care costs is different from that for acute medical care.

TL;DR: The integration of populationbased administrative health databases has been realized in British Columbia by constructing an historical file of all persons registered with the health care system, and by probabilistically linking various program files to this ‘coordinating’ file.