Health care reform has become one of the most prevalent topics in recent policy discourse
within and across nations. In the 1990s, common features of the health care arena elevated …

Examining the impact of health information networks on health system integration in Canada |
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Although health care is a provincial responsibility in Canada, universal hospital insurance
was fully adopted by 1961; universal medical insurance followed 10 years later. Each …

At a time when Canadian political institutions are being fundamentally questioned, this book
provides a comparative perspective on the distinctive features of the Canadian policy …

Uniform and binding fee schedules for physicians have been advanced as a cost-control
strategy that can also improve patient access to care, as well as spread costs more …

This paper analyzes data from three large-scale surveys of Canadian physicians conducted
over the past decade to examine the politics of a cohort of recently established family …

The apparent defeat of the medical profession on the issue of extra-billing presents an
anomaly, in light of the historical and comparative literature on the political power of …

OBJECTIVES: We examine the relationship between social capital, community size and GP
visits, and conceptualize social capital as a stock variable measured at a prior point in time …

Since the late 1960s, concerns over the escalating costs of health care have been
expressed with increasing vigor on both sides of the Canada-United States border. This is in …

Through the twentieth century, the nature of medical practice has changed more quickly,
more dramatically, and far more publicly than that of any other profession in Canada. In this …