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Health Systems and Policy Monitor (HSPM)
An innovative platform that provides a detailed description of health systems and provides up-to-date information on reforms and changes that are particularly policy relevant. In parallel, the Health Reform Tracker (see the Tracker tab) provides an overview of health reforms in over 30 countries across the WHO European Region and North America. For detailed information on country policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020-2021, see our separate COVID-19 Health Systems Response Monitor (HSRM).
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Canada’s National Dementia Strategy
31 January 2018 | Country Update
On 22 June 2017, The Government of Canada passed Bill C-233, making Canada the 30th country to pass into law a national dementia strategy to enhance dementia-related clinical, therapeutic and health system research efforts, and ensure access to quality care and support for persons living with dementia across Canada. This strategy represents a legal commitment at the federal level to address dementia, the prevalence and associated economic burden of which are expected to be 1,125,200 million people and $872 billion (CAD), respectively by 2038.
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- Husayn Marani
- Matthew Charles Farr
- Greg Marchildon
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