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• Although pharmaceuticals have the ability to improve health outcomes, they are the fastest
growing component of Canadian health care expenditures.• By analyzing the cost …

• The National Pharmaceuticals Strategy is a comprehensive and collaborative pan-
Canadian approach to address problems related to affordability and safety.• Two new …

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Where you live in Canada and your economic status make a big difference to the sort of
prescription medicine you are likely to receive from public health insurance—although that is …

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Parliament, a diverse group of experts at a recent symposium on pharmaceutical policies
endorsed the idea of a federally coordinated, national formulary of recommended drugs to …

Canada and a much larger number of Canadians have diffculty affording them. Provincial
formularies list thousands of medications available to individuals receiving social …

Medicines make an essential contribution to the health of the community, but rapidly rising
drug budgets have caused governments to seek ways of ensuring this expenditure results in …

The amelioration of drug prescribing practices holds out the prospect of improving health
outcomes without increasing health care spending or the demands on hospital and …