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    Health services restructuring in Canada : new evidence and new directions / edited by Charles M. Beach [and others].

    • Title:Health services restructuring in Canada : new evidence and new directions / edited by Charles M. Beach [and others].
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Beach, Charles M.
      John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy.
      Institute for Research on Public Policy.
    • Conference/Event:Health Services Restructuring in Canada Conference (2005 : Kingston, Ont.)
    • Published/Created:Kingston, Ont. : John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University, [2006]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Health care reform--Canada.
      Medical care--Canada.
      Pharmaceutical policy--Canada.
      Public health--Canada.
    • Description:x, 378 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
    • Notes:Proceedings of a conference held at Queen's University, Nov. 17-18, 2005.
      "Institute for Research on Public Policy; Published in cooperation with McGill-Queen's University Press."
      Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9781553390756 (bound)
      9781553390763 (pbk.)
      155339075X (bound)
      1553390768 (pbk.)
    • Contents:Sect. I. Health-Care Reform
      Opening remarks / Michael Decter
      Policy instruments and health reform : the role for evidence / Pierre-Gerlier Forest
      Regionalization and health services restructuring in Saskatchewan / Gregory P. Marchildon
      decision-making framework for the prioritization of health technologies / Ana P. Johnson-Masotti and Kevin Eva
      effects of delisting publicly funded health-care services / Mark Stabile and Courtney Ward
      demand for private health insurance in Alberta in the presence of a public alternative / J. C. Herbert Emery and Kevin Gerrits
      Discussant's comments / Tom McIntosh
      Sect. II. Pharmacare
      Opening remarks / Robyn Tamblyn
      Drugs for rare diseases : paying for innovation / Aidan Hollis
      Effectiveness of reference drug programs and policy implications / Sebastian Schneeweiss
      Discussant's comments / Wayne Critchley
      Sect. III. Issues in the delivery of health care : health human resources and regionalization
      Opening remarks / Tom Ward
      Barriers and solutions to implementation strategies to improve health human resource models in Canada / Martine Durier-Copp and Dominika Wranik
      Where have all the home-care workers gone? / Margaret Denton, Isik Urla Zeytinoglu, Sharon Davies and Danielle Hunter
      Snapshots of health-care utilization in Canada : is the picture changing? : 1978-1998 / Lori J. Curtis
      Discussant's comments / Peter Glynn
      Sect. IV. Public health
      economics of obesity : research and policy implications from a Canada-US comparison / M. Christopher Auld and Lisa M. Powell
      Sextant? : chronometer? : are we equipped to chart the course of Canadian health services restructuring? / Robert C. James and Manya Sadouski
      Structural reform in the Canadian blood system / Kumanan Wilson
      Discussant's comments / Duncan Hunter.
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