Health care systems are different in different countries. In some countries health care systems are mostly privatized and in some countries health care systems are mostly public sector maintained. Both the systems (public or private) has there advantages and disadvantages. Not only health care systems, health care information systems are also different in different countries and in many developing and underdeveloped countries the health care information system may not be functioning properly or in some cases it is almost non existence.
Canada 411 is information system which Canadian Health Care system follows. Canada 411 has many merits and better than the information system that many countries follow, including many developed countries.
Canadian Health Care is one of the best in the world and that is the reason health care indices like IMR (infant mortality rate) is among the lowest in the world in Canada. Infant mortality rate is the most sensitive indicator of health and reflect the effectiveness of the health care system in a country or a region, which is lowest in best health care systems and highest in the worst systems. IMR is used as an indicator of health care delivery system by most of the health care organizations like WHO (World Health Organization). High infant mortality rate indicate there is need to improvement of health care delivery system and there is need to infuse more fund to the health care delivery system and rationalize the distribution of resources so that there is equal distribution of funds for health care in cities and rural areas as well as in different regions of a country. Canada has one of the lowest infant mortality rate (IMR), which indicate the health care system followed in Canada is one of the best in the world.
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