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[Background] Planning authority for health care services has traditionally been the purview of the provincial government. Over the past decade there has been a significant shift in this responsibility, with control over many services moving to the health authority level. One outcome has been the breakdown of some of the barriers between different types of service. Health authority control over a range of services means there is motivation to organize care more efficiently and to ease transfer between and among different types of care. This chapter depicts the way people within those areas use health care services. [Contents] 
Acute care days Hospital separations Emergency room visits General practitioner expenditures Specialist expenditures PharmaCare expenditures Home support users Continuity of physician care High users of physician services Summary
BC Health Atlas, Second Edition | UBC CHSPR
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