Health care in an aging Canada: constraint or choice?

Book ChapterIt is often presumed that population aging will result in increased demand for health care, with older Canadians seen as a "burden" to the working population. Yet, such a presumption of direct correlation (with implied causality) belies the complex questions of societal choices in expenditures: factors such as per capita health care utilization, nondemographic forces that drive the health care system, and the health care system's treatment of older people. Closer examination of trends in health care and in population aging reveal that just as large feet are correlated with, but do not cause, higher intelligence, population aging may be correlated with,but not cause, increasing health care costs

Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the United States of America: Entering the 21st Century

I INTRODUCTION All around the world, indigenous groups, e.g., Maori of New Zealand, Saami of Sweden, Ainu of Japan, Indians of North America, are building solidarity over such issues as sovereignty and self-determination. Their efforts have thus far culminated in the writing of the Declaration of Indigenous Peoples Rights, which is now before the United Nations. Even though much of the land base of indigenous peoples has been lost and much of their political and social structure has b..