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)
- 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:
- Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Three Canadian Provinces, NAO Rapid Review
- Comparison of outpatient coverage in Canada: Assistive and medical devices, Health Policy
- Achieving higher performing primary care through patient registration: A review of twelve high-income countries, Health Policy
- The current and potential uses of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data for primary health care performance measurement in the Canadian context: a qualitative analysis, BMC Health Services Research
- Putting the Patient First: A Scoping Review of Patient Desires in Canada, Healthcare Policy
Books:
- Canada Health System Review 2020 (available in English and French)
- 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 – September 2021
- Health Reform Observer – Call for Papers: Special issue on Indigenous self-determination in health system reforms (Revised Submission Deadline)
Events
Visit our NAO Lecture Series & Events page for lecture recordings.
