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Collaboration project with the World
Health Organization:
Long-term care policy in developed and developing countries.
Review: Long-term care in Canada 2001
A review by Drs. Howard
Bergman and François
Béland, Co-directors of SOLIDAGE, Lysette Trahan
and Patricia Caris, Québec
Ministry of Health and Social Services and Anne Perrault,
Scientific Coordinator for IHRT, provides a general
description
of long-term care policy in Canada with a more specific
description of long-term care provision in the province
of Quebec.
This review was presented by Howard
Bergman and François
Béland at the “Mercedes-Train-Bicycle”
workshop held in Annecy, France, November 4-9, 2001, under
the auspices of the WHO.
The workshop was attended by twenty leading experts in
long-term
care and health systems from developing and developed countries.
Objectives of the workshop:
- Reflect on the experience of participating countries
- Develop a conceptual framework for addressing issues including
the provision of better advice and guidelines
for all countries in general,
and for developing countries in particular.
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