Changing health care in Canada / / edited by Pierre-Gerlier Forest, Gregory P. Marchildon, and Tom McIntos

• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 362.1/0971
• Soggetto topico: Medical care - Canada; Medical economics - Canada; Medical policy - Canada; Public health - Canada
• Soggetto geografico: Canada
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ForestPierre-Gerlier
• Persona (resp. second.): MarchildonGregory P. <1956->; McIntoshThomas A <1964-> (Thomas Allan)
• Note generali: Papers originally commissioned as part of the research activities of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada headed by Roy J. Romanow.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction: Changing Health Care in Canada -- Part One: System Change, Organization Change -- 1 Complicated and Complex Systems: What Would Successful Reform of Medicare Look Like? -- 2 Financial Rules As a Catalyst for Change in the Canadian Health Care System -- 3 Governance and Management of Change in Canada's Health System -- Part Two: Change and Providers -- 4 Planning for Care: Approaches to Human Resources Policy and Planning in Health Care ; 5 How Do Human Resource Policies and Practices Inhibit Change in Health Care? A Plan for the Future6 Changes and a Few Paradoxes: Some Thoughts on Health System Personnel -- 7 The Influence of Physician-Payment Methods on the Efficiency of the Health Care System -- Part Three: Change and the Public -- 8 Public Involvement in the Development of a Health Care Vision -- 9 Public Participation and Citizen Governance in the Canadian Health System -- 10 Practical Strategies for Facilitating Meaningful Citizen Involvement in Health Planning
• Sommario/riassunto: The second in a series of three volumes presenting a selection of the best studies prepared for the Romanow Commission, this volume focuses on the problem of change in health care and health systems. Combining the talents of experienced health policy experts with innovative researchers, the resulting studies provide unique perspectives on the difficult issues under scrutiny, including complexity in health systems, management of human resources, organizational control and regulation, and public engagement.Commissioned and prepared with applicability as the foremost criteria, all of the studies presented in this volume offer solutions in managing obstacles to change. Each study also includes an appraisal of the most recent literature in the field.
• Titolo autorizzato: Changing health care in Canada
• ISBN: 1-4426-5923-8; 1-281-99629-7; 9786611996291; 1-4426-7283-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780525003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Romanow papers ; ; v. 2