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
Newfoundland and Labrador:
A Health System Profile
(now available in PDF)
Alberta: A Health System Profile
(now available in PDF)
New Publication in the Special Issue on Indigenous Self-determination in Health System Reforms
Health Policy Updates
- United States (Feb 2, 2024): Rise of Uninsured with post-COVID-19 Medicaid Disenrollment
New Publications
- Implementing the Primary Health Care Approach: a Primer
- Perspectives of Canadian health leaders on the relationship between medical assistance in dying and palliative and end-of-life care services: a qualitative study, CMAJ
- Do expenditures on public health reduce preventable mortality in the long run? Evidence from the Canadian provinces, Social Science and Medicine
New Rapid Reviews
News
- Newsletter – March 2024
Health System Profiles
Canada Health System Review (2020)
Mexico Health System Review (2020)
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.