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Persons with developmental disabilities in Canada take part in health care and social services systems with variations largely based in the communities in which they live. Medicare provides access to medically necessary hospital and physician services without direct cost to Canadians; public funding for other health care services is variable across the country. Most patients have a personal family physician providing comprehensive and continuing care. For those with developmental disabilities, children’s care in large, tertiary-care, academic centres is more likely to be team-based and inter-professional than adults’ care. Epidemiologic and health systems research in Canada is providing the basis for better understanding of health care needs and targeted interventions.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the helpful comments of Drs. Elizabeth Grier (Kingston, Ontario), Brian Hennen (Halifax, Nova Scotia), David Joyce (Vancouver, British Columbia), Mark Kristjanson (Winnipeg, Manitoba) and Yona Lunsky (Toronto, Ontario).
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Casson, I. et al. (2016). Canada. In: Rubin, I.L., Merrick, J., Greydanus, D.E., Patel, D.R. (eds) Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18096-0_42
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