Project Title: Physical Therapy Services in Ontario: Assessing a Changing Public/Private Mix

Research Team:
Landry, M.
Deber, R.
Verrier, M.
Williams, A. P.

This project looked at trends in private delivery of health care services in physical therapy, and its relationship to that sector's market structures and financing. It formed the basis of the PhD thesis of M-THAC fellow Mike Landry.

It received seed funding from the M-THAC Opportunities Fund.

Selected Publications:

• Landry, M.D. (2005). Physical therapy services in Ontario: Assessing a changing public/private mix. Ph.D. Dissertation, Toronto, ON: Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

• Landry M, Williams AP, Verrier MC, Zakus D, Deber R. Shifting the Public-Private Mix: A Policy Analysis of Physical Therapy Funding in Ontario. Physiotherapy Canada. (accepted)

• Addional manuscripts are in preparation.