Webinar - What Can We Learn from Public Health Expenditure Data in Canada from 1975 to 2018?

This webinar presented and discussed key findings from research led and published by Dr Mehdi Ammi, Professor at the Carleton University School of Public Policy and Administration in Ottawa, entitled, “Interpreting Forty-Three-Year Trends of Expenditures on Public Health in Canada: Long-Run Trends, Temporal Periods, and Data Differences”. The NCCHPP is involved in this project as a public health knowledge use.
Among the elements needed to renew and strengthen public health outlined in the Chief Public Health Officer's 2021 report is the need to ensure stable and consistent funding across all public health systems in Canada. The report also calls for more transparent and accessible data on public health spending to inform accountability mechanisms and decision making.
While Canada has the highest share of public expenditures on public health among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, little is known about the evolution and composition of these expenditures and how they compare at the federal, provincial, and territorial levels. This is what Dr Ammi and his team have tried to better understand.
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