The Impact of Deficit Reduction on the Nursing Labour Market in Canada
- 1 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Applied Health Economics and Health Policy
- Vol. 4 (2) , 99-110
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00148365-200504020-00004
Abstract
Beginning in 1992, governments throughout Canada began reducing expenditures in an effort to eliminate fiscal deficits and reduce their alarmingly high debt burden. As part of this deficit-fighting era, governments reduced hospital expenditure levels quite dramatically. Some of the current problems in the Canadian healthcare system–the recent unrest in the nursing labour market in particular–are often attributed to this hospital downsizing era.Keywords
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