摘要：Over much of the industrialized world, the provision of health care has been and remains an issue of intense debate. Health-care systems, such as Canada's, that are based on sorne notion of universal coverage have been affected by recent attention to cost containment (Evans et al. 1991). But universality has not been rejected as a fundamental principle and continues to imply a cornmitment to equity. These continuing concerns over getting the population distribution of health care 'right' have led policy-makers in many countries to focus attention on policies aimed at changing that distribution. In this paper, we examine these distributional issues in Ontario and Quebec.
