Diana MacKay What`s Worth Knowing Presentation

What’s Worth Knowing?
Diana MacKay
Director, Education, Health and Immigration
The Conference Board of Canada
Learning for a Sustainable Future
November 16, 2011
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The Conference Board of Canada
•  Independent, not-for-profit, applied
research
•  Specialists in economic trends,
organizational performance and public
policy
•  Forecasts and analysis
•  Conferences and events
•  Custom research
•  Executive networks
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The Conference Board Thinks
about Canada’s Future Prosperity
What’s worth knowing?
Who needs to know?
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What’s Worth Knowing about Health?
Centre for
Health
System
Design and
Roundtable on Management
SocioEconomic
Determinants
Canadian
of Health
Alliance for
Sustainable
Health Care
Centre for
Chronic
Disease
Centre for
Prevention
the
and
Advancemen
Management
t of Health
Innovation
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Council on
Workplace
Health and
Wellness
CEO Health
& Safety
Charter
What about Education?
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Skills (relevant to the labour market)
Credential recognition / competencies
Primary
Secondary
Post-secondary
Lifelong learning
Workplace learning (for leaders, for workers)
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Determinants of Health
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biology
education
family
globalization
income
location
and many, many others things
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Healthy People
• The role of
employers
• The role of business
enterprises as the
producers of goods
and services
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Healthy Children
•  The role of employers
•  The role of business enterprises as the
producers of goods and services
•  Children aged…
–  Pre-conception
–  0-6
–  6-12
–  12-18
–  18-25
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Thank you!
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Canadian Alliance for
Sustainable Health Care
Research-­‐in-­‐Progress 2011-­‐2012 www.conferenceboard.ca
Canadian Alliance for
Sustainable Health Care
•  Responding to the reality that Canada’s current public
health care system is fiscally unsustainable
•  Leveraging the quantitative skills of our economic
forecast and analysis team
•  Building on the expertise of the Conference Board’s
organizational performance and public policy divisions
•  Advised and guided by the members of our healthrelated executive networks
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Foundational Studies Who Does What in Canadian Health-­‐Care Research •  Identify organizations with complementary research capacity, and to conEirm that CASHC brings a unique perspective and research focus −  Lead: Louis Thériault, Director, Health Economics −  Advisors: Interested CASHC members −  Status: Draft and analysis being updated, external readers need to identiEied www.conferenceboard.ca
Foundational Studies: (con’t) Sustainability – What Does This Mean for Canada’s Health and Health-­‐Care Systems? •  Identify the critical elements of health and health care sustainability in Canada and to provide a common deEinition of sustainability −  Lead:
Gabriela Prada, Dir, Health Innovation, Policy, Evaluation −  Advisors: Alan Stuart (Sunlife), Lynda Cranston (PHSA-­‐BC), Owen Adams (CMA) −  Status:
Lit Review almost complete; elements for system sustainability identiEied; seeking input from advisory committee on gaps; all CASHC members will be interviewed www.conferenceboard.ca
Foundational Studies (con’t) The Canadian Health-­‐Care Debate: A Survey and Assessment of Key Studies •  Summarize the main recommendations for health care transformation to date, assessing the uptake of these recommendations, and identifying current gaps and opportunities. −  Lead:
Gabriela Prada, Dir, Health Innovation, Policy, Evaluation −  Advisors: Mary Webb (Scotiabank), Beth Horsburg (Saskatoon Health Region), Gavin Stuart (UBC) tbc, Donna Bain (WSIB), Alan Stewart (Sunlife) −  Status:
Summary table completed and now being coded for systematic qualitative analysis. www.conferenceboard.ca
Foundational Studies (con’t)
The Economic Footprint of Canada’s Health-­‐Care Sector •  Provide an economy-­‐wide estimate of all the industries involved in providing health-­‐care products and services and highlight the strategic economic importance of the Canadian health-­‐care sector. −  Lead:
−  Advisors:
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Louis Thériault, Director, Health Economics Mary Webb (Scotiabank), Vasanthi Srinavasan, (ON Health), Mark Ferdinand (RxD) The outline is being developed. www.conferenceboard.ca
Theme: Financing
Fiscal Sustainability of Publicly Funded Health Care in Ontario •  Measure the Ontario government Einancial capacity to invest in health, education, infrastructure renewal and other important social priorities, given the economic outlook over the next twenty years −  Lead:
−  Advisors:
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Glen Hodgson, Senior Vice-­‐President and Chief Economist Peter Wallace (ON Finance), Mary Webb (Scotiabank), Derek Burleton (TD), Don Drummond, Mark Ferdinand (RxD) Advisory Group met in July; proposal being reEined to develop speciEic scenarios www.conferenceboard.ca
Theme: Organizational Design,
Alignment and Performance
Benchmark Health-­‐Care System Performance •  To produce an updated, objective, data-­‐based scorecard on the performance of Canada’s provincial health care systems. −  Lead: Gabriela Prada, Dir, Health Innovation, Policy, Evaluation −  Advisors: Vasanthi Srinavasan (ON Health), Susanna Zagar, (WSIB) −  Status: Project-­‐speciEic plan being developed with 3 deliverables; 1)  paper on methodology 2)  Benchmarking report by province 3)  Benchmarking report internationally www.conferenceboard.ca
Theme: Prevention Population Health: Trends and Implications for the Canadian Economy • 
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To deEine the state of population health -­‐ identifying key chronic diseases in terms of disease and economic burdens & key causal and risk factors. Discuss areas for deeper research on population health. − 
Lead: Louis Thériault, Dir, Health Economics & Diana MacKay, Dir, Education, Health & Immigration Programs − 
Advisors: Vasanthi Srinavasan (ON Health), Mark Ferdinand (RxD) − 
Status: Proposal is complete; Advisory Group to meet soon. www.conferenceboard.ca
Making the Business Case for Investments
in Workplace Health and Wellness
•  Provide employers from various sized organizations with guidance
on how to calculate the return on investment of workplace health
and wellness programs.
−  Lead:
KarlaThorpe, Associate Director, Compensation −  Advisors: Alan Stewart (Sunlife), Diane Champagne (Mercer), Eugene Wen (WSIB), Farzad Ali (PEizer), François Campeau (PEizer), Garry Herback (Co-­‐operators), Helen Stevenson (Reformulary Group), Judith Shamian (VON)
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Advisory Group met in July; they have since received meeting notes, preliminary list of references for the lit review and table of contents and the project work plan. www.conferenceboard.ca
Next Meeting
The Path to Health Care Reform: Policy and Politics
Collaborative Meeting of The Conference Board of Canada’s
Health Networks
April 16, 2012
Venue: Old Mill Spa and Resort
21 Old Mill Rd, Toronto
Date:
With
André Picard
Scholar-in-Residence for
The Conference Board of Canada
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Thank you!
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