Adding up provincial expenditures on health care for Manitobans - A POPULIS project

OBJECTIVES. Using the POPULIS framework, this project estimated health care expenditures across the entire population of Manitoba for inpatient and ou tpatient hospital utilization, physician visits, mental health inpatient, a nd nursing home utilization. RESEARCH DESIGN. This estimated expenditure information was then used to co mpare per capita expenditures relative to premature mortality rates across the various areas of Manitoba. RESULTS. considerable variation in health care expenditures was found, with those areas having high premature mortality rates also having higher healt h tare expenditures.