... attempting to impair the financial basis of the former. In Canada, the power contests are between the provinces and the federal government. JHPPL 25.4-04.Geva-May 7/21/00 12:23 PM Page 717 What Prompts Health Care Policy Change? On Political Power...

...Robert G. Evans Canada Robert G. Evans University of British Columbia The Canadian health care system took its modern form between 1968 and 1971, and its fundamental...

...Katherine Fierlbeck Books 995 Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, Accidental Logics: The Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 312 pp. $88.00 cloth. How useful...

...Carolyn Hughes Tuohy Antonia Maioni. Parting at the Crossroads: The Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 216 pp. $45.00 cloth. 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Marmor, Theodore R. 2000 . The Politics...

...Katherine Boothe When policy change is considered, what determines its success or failure? Why do plans for broad reforms often fall short, and why do certain types of change become more difficult over time? This article addresses these questions by examining health policy development in Canada...

...Carolyn Hughes Tuohy Fierlbeck Katherine . Health Care in Canada: A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2010 . 382 + xiv pp . C$85.00 cloth; C$37.95 paper. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...; such banks often coexist with a panoply of private options for cord blood banking. Until recently, Canada was the only G8 country without a national cord blood bank. This differs markedly from the United States, which years ago established a national cord blood bank policy and inventory. This article...

...Antonia Maioni Terry Boychuk. The Making and Meaning of Hospital Policy in the United States and Canada . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,1999. 178 pp. $42.50 cloth. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.3-08 Books 5/3/01 5:20 PM Page 635...

...R. J. Van Loon This paper takes as its starting point recent major changes in arrangements between the federal and provincial governments in Canada concerning the sharing of costs for health insurance programs. The switch from a shared cost (conditional grant) to a modified block funding system...

... patterns of care and income. A brief sketch is given of the present situation and future possibilities of Canadian health care under these heads. Health Care in Canada: Patterns of Funding and Regulation Robert G. Evans, University of British Columbia Abstract. During...

...Geoffrey R. Weller; Pranlal Manga Progress towards the equity objective in health has been seriously threatened in recent years by attempts to halt or reverse the direction of postwar policy and reprivatize the health care systems of Canada, Britain, and the United States. This article examines...

...-minding our Ps and Qs: Medical Cost Controls in Canada. Health Affairs 15 : 216 -234. Brown, Malcolm C. 1991 . Health Economics and Policy: Problems and Prescriptions . Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Bzdera, André. 1993 . Comparative Analysis of Federal High Court: A Political Theory...

...Mary E. Wiktorowicz Although industrialized nations regulate pharmaceuticals to ensure their safety and efficacy, they balance these concerns with those related to the timeliness of the approval process and the burdens involved in meeting regulatory criteria. The United States, Canada, Britain...

...Ronald J. Angel Esping-Andersen, G. 1990 . The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Dan Zuberi. Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada. Ithaca...

...Howard A. Palley © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Constance A. Nathanson. Disease Prevention as Social Change: The State, Society, and Public Health in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Canada. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. 328 pp. $37.50 cloth...

...Theodore R. Marmor W. Kip Viscusi. Smoke Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 263 pp. $27.50 cloth. Donley T. Studlar. Tobacco Control: Comparative Politics in the United States and Canada. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2002. 327...

... overheads and profit incentives that make a fragmented private insurance industry so expensive and inequitable. Whereas health insurance in Canada is socialized, care is not: patients are free to choose among providers, physicians are primarily in private practice, and hospitals are independent, nonprofit...

...Morris L. Barer; Clyde Hertzman; Robert Miller; Marina V. Pascali The debate over health care reform in the United States has drawn Canada under the microscope. Canada's health care system is frequently offered as a model for American national health insurance. Curiously absent from this policy...

... from others who have had negotiating responsibilities for over a quarter of a century—the provincial medical associations in Canada. In this article we examine the structure, process, and outcomes of negotiations between physicians, with a focus on responses to new physician expenditure caps in Ontario...

...Gwen Gray Health policy changes intended to achieve cost control in OECD countries run the risk of reintroducing financial barriers to health care. However, although the problems faced are similar, different countries are dealing with the situation in different ways. For example, Canada...