Editor-in-Chief.
Healthc Policy. 2020 Nov;16(2):6-13. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2020.26358.
Excluding capital projects, spending on hospitals, physicians and drugs makes up more than two thirds of provincial and territorial governments' healthcare spending (CIHI 2019). One expects that health services and policy research would be aligned with where the money flows and yet, there is a misalignment. For example, research as published by Healthcare Policy, is not so neatly aligned with provincial and territorial governments' healthcare spending patterns. In this issue, for instance, there are only two such articles - one related to medication adherence and cost, and another related to payment policy associated with a hospital's alternative level of care utilization. The previous issue of Healthcare Policy was similarly focused, with only two articles the study settings of which were primary care.
不包括资本项目，医院、医生和药品的支出占省和地区政府医疗保健支出的三分之二以上（加拿大健康信息研究所，2019 年）。人们期望卫生服务和政策研究与资金流向保持一致，但实际上存在错位。例如，《医疗保健政策》发表的研究与省和地区政府的医疗保健支出模式并不完全一致。例如，在本期中，只有两篇这样的文章——一篇与药物依从性和成本有关，另一篇与与医院替代护理利用相关的支付政策有关。《医疗保健政策》的上一期也同样关注，只有两篇文章的研究地点是初级保健。
