relationship between health care need and standardized mortality ratios in Ontario

Needs-based health care funding methods are increasingly being considered for the Canadian health care system, particularly as a basis for allocating funds from central Ministries of Health to local and regional health authorities. Standardized Mortality Ratios are one of the commonly used measures of health care need within such funding formulae. This paper applies the non-linear least-squares method suggested by Bedard et al. (2000) to …