This analysis also looks at the role that federal health funding has played in supporting the health care mandate of the provinces and territories, and what that role can be expected to be in the future given the recent negotiations around the Canada Health Transfer (CHT). [...] These four time periods are important as they overlap with distinct periods of higher economic growth and federal transfers to the provinces in the case of the 1985–1991 and 1998–2009 periods, and the opposite circumstance in the case of the 1992–1997 and 2010–2016 periods. [...] Providing a useful comparison to the work of CIHI is that of the Conference Board of Canada, which publishes its own evaluation of the health status of Canadians by region and then compares that with the health status of Canada’s peers around the world (Conference Board of Canada, 2015). [...] Table 3 illustrates the differential ordering of the provinces and territories by health status and health care system performance, as determined by the Conference Board and the IFSD using CIHI data, respectively, as well as by the 2014 per capita cost of health care from CIHI. [...] Indeed, as the majority of the new federal funding that is in addition to the CHT is back-loaded to the end of the 5-year fiscal planning horizon, and beyond the 2019 federal election.
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