title: Focus on healthcare: a wider lens.
abstract: Achieving greater healthcare efficiency requires a much better understanding of the relationships and processes that occur between the inputs and outputs of the system. It also requires a broadening of the lens to include the determinants of health. The answers to many of the questions posed by the authors of the lead article lie in research, a key area of needed investment if Canada is going to respond to the value-for-money challenge.
authors.affiliation: Canadian Nurses Association.
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bard
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D004471:Economics, Nursing; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D015981:Epidemiologic Factors; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D006291:Health Policy; D006302:Health Services Research; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans