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.
Updates
COVID-19:
- North American COVID-19 Policy Response Monitor
- Health System Response Monitor (HSRM)
- Cambridge Core HEPL blog series: Country Responses to the Covid19 Pandemic
- Age-based healthcare stereotype threat during the COVID-19 pandemic, Journal of Gerontological Social Work
- The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination: what can Canada learn from Israel? Israel Journal of Health Policy
- Features Constituting Actionable COVID-19 Dashboards: Descriptive Assessment and Expert Appraisal of 158 Public Web-Based COVID-19 Dashboards, Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Canada needs a university-based, domestic vaccine-making capability
- Why we do not have a COVID-19 vaccine production in Canada and what we can do about it
- COVID-19, federalism, and health care financing in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
- The Federal Government and Canada’s COVID-19 Responses: From “We’re ready, we’re prepared” to “Fires and burning”, Health Economics, Policy and Law
- A comparison of health policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, Health Policy
New publications:
- The current and potential uses of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data for primary health care performance measurement in the Canadian context: a qualitative analysis
- Putting the Patient First: A Scoping Review of Patient Desires in Canada, Healthcare Policy
- Coverage of Grey Area Services in Four Provincial/Territorial Health Insurance Programs, NAO Rapid Review
- Never Events in Acute Care: Policy Lessons from International Comparisons, NAO Rapid Review
- Patients’ Views of the Canadian Health-Care System, NAO Study prepared for the Ontario Medical Association
Books:
- Canada Health System Review 2020
- Mexico Health System Review 2020
- United States Health System Review 2020
- Nova Scotia Health System Profile – [PDF] available open access
- Book co-edited by Greg Marchildon on Universality and Social Policy in Canada
News
- NAO Newsletter – August 2021
- A Passing of the Torch: A Chat with New NAO Director Sara Allin
- NAO Newsletter – July 2021
- Reflections on the past, looking to the future – a Q&A with founding director Greg Marchildon
- Newly Published Comparison of Global Health Insurance Systems Demonstrates U.S. Weaknesses, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
- Feds should tout vaccine costs as ‘leverage’ in future talks with premiers, says expert, The Hill Times
- How St-Laurent helped achieve universal hospital insurance, Inside Policy
- Health Systems in Transition (HiT) Series: Canada, United States, and Mexico books published
Events
Visit our NAO Lecture Series & Events page for lecture recordings.
