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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798568003321

Autore

Carson A. Scott

Titolo

Toward a healthcare strategy for Canadians / / edited by A. Scott Carson, Jeffrey Dixon, and Kim Richard Nossal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-55339-440-2

1-55339-441-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Queen's policy studies series

Disciplina

362.10971

Soggetti

Medical policy - Canada

Medical care - Canada

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Why Canadians need a system-wide healthcare strategy / A. Scott Carson -- Canadian blood services as an example of a Canadian healthcare strategy / Graham D. Sher -- System-wide healthcare reform : the Australian experience / Justin Beilby, Steve Hambleton, and Michael Reid -- The need for a pan-Canadian health human resources strategy and coordinated action plan / Ivy Lynn Bourgeault [and others] -- Toward a coordinated electronic health record (EHR) strategy for Canada / Francis Lau, Morgan Price, and Jesdeep Bassi -- Integrating care for persons with chronic health and social needs / Walter P. Wodchis, A. Paul Williams, and Gustavo Mery -- No undue hardship : a way forward for Canadian pharmacare / Jeffrey Dixon -- Moving forward on universal pharmacare in Canada : should we regulate private insurers in a managed competition model to achieve our goals? / Colleen M. Flood, Bryan Thomas and Ryan Tanner -- Academic networks for the evaluation of health policy and system performance / Gregory P. Marchildon -- Politics and the healthcare policy arena in Canada : diagnosing the situation, evaluating solutions / Antonia Maioni -- Health policy reform in Canada : bridging policy and politics / Don Drummond -- If Canada had a health care strategy, what form



could it take? / A. Scott Carson.

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive look at reforming Canada's mediocre public healthcare system from a system-wide strategic perspective.