The solution - Health Productivity Gap
To narrow these gaps, Canada should pursue and track a set of integrated actions that directly improve the country's HPG. There's no time to waste; an aging population, rising chronic disease, and a rapidly shifting technological and geopolitical landscape necessitate urgent action. The following seven actions aim to rebuild the system around a single organizing idea: in addition to being an individual and social good, health is a productivity asset. The first four restore people's capacity to participate; the next three expand the system's capacity to deliver. Each reinforces the others. Canada's system is built around episodes of poor health during which reliable, consistent relationships with medical professionals are sadly lacking. Approximately six million people have no family doctor.31 A Health Home integrates primary care and prevention, giving every person a named care team as their front door to care. The Netherlands shows what universal attachment looks like: more than 95% o