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Percentage of Canadian adults that believed select policies would improve health care access as of 2018

Characteristic	Percentage of respondents
Encouraging health professionals to work in teams with other types of health care providers	54%
Enabling health professionals (nurses and pharmacists) to expand roles re: diagnose, treat, prescribe medications, etc.	51%
Increasing medical and nursing school enrolment levels	47%
Making it easier for foreign trained doctors to practice in Canada	37%
Investing in formal training and development so health professionals are better equipped to coordinate patient care	28%
Recruiting health professionals back from the U.S.	25%
Mandating that designated health professionals work in underserviced rural and remote locations	23%
Requiring patients to register with one family doctor or other primary health care professional	17%
No other policies are important to me	4%

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Release date

August 2018

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Region

Canada

Survey time period

April to May, 2018

Number of respondents

1,500 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Original question: "Which three policies would you say are the most important to increase access to health professionals? Please chose up to three options."

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This statistic depicts the percentage of Canadians that agreed that select health policies would improve access to health care in 2018. According to the survey results, 54 percent of respondents said that encouraging health professionals to work in teams would improve health care access in Canada.