Disparities in public awareness, practitioner availability, and institutional support contribute to differential rates of MAiD utilization: a natural experiment comparing California and Canada.

Even though California and Canada both legalised medical aid in dying (MAiD) in 2016 and have similarly sized populations, only 853 medically assisted deaths occurred in California versus 13,241 in Canada in 2022, the most recently reported year. Ten testable hypotheses were proposed to explain this...

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Published in:	Mortality Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 252 - 273
Main Authors:	Byram, Adrian C., Reiner, Peter B.
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2025
Subjects:	California Canada Assisted suicide Health services accessibility Health literacy Palliative treatment Public opinion Psychological adaptation Confidence Social support Hospice care Patient autonomy Research funding Descriptive statistics Comparative studies
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