... and allocating health resources. This article asks whether 10 years of experience with public and patient involvement in Canadian drug assessment has affected participants' ideas about how it works. Methods: The author surveyed the ideas of participants in the drug assessment process (members of...

...Joel Lexchin; Mary Wiktorowicz; Kathy Moscou; Laura Eggertson The Canadian constitution divides the responsibility for pharmaceuticals between the federal and provincial governments. While the provincial governments are responsible for establishing public formularies, the majority of the safety and...

...Theodore R. Marmor; William D. White Robert G. Evans, Strained Mercy: The Economics of Canadian Health Care (Toronto: Butterworths, 1984), $39.95. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Books Perspectives Robert G. Evans, Strained Mercy: The Economics of Canadian Health Care...

...Patricia M. Alt Eloise Rathbone-McCuan and Betty Havens, eds., North American Elders: United States and Canadian Perspectives (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988), 298 pp. Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Book Reviews 431 serious deficiency of this presentation is that the...

... policy puzzle. Canadian “Medicare” is the world's only universal health insurance system that provides comprehensive coverage for hospital and physician services while excluding prescription medicines. This is the result of the policy-in-stages approach taken by Medicare's founders, introducing coverage...

... Administrative Efficiency of the U.S. Health Care System. New England Journal of Medicine 324 : 1253 -8. So Near, and Yet So Far: A Canadian Perspective on U.S. Health Care Reform Morris L. Barer...

...Ellen M. Immergut C. David Naylor, Private Practice, Public Payment: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of Health Insurance, 1911–1966 (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986), 324 pp., $35.00 cloth, $ 15.95 paper. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 References...

.... Haugan. Forthcoming. Is Canada Odd? A Comparison of European and Canadian Approaches to Choice and Regulation of the Public/Private Divide in Health Care. Health Economics, Policy and Law . Gross, A. M. 2007 . The Right to Health in an Era of Globalization and Privatization: National and...

...Geoffrey R. Weller Because health policy is the result of a tremendous variety of shifting forces, it is necessary to be eclectic in the approach used to study it. Analyzing the Canadian case in this broad perspective reveals that the influence of ideological and institutional forces, and principal...

... long-term beds may be the least desirable policy alternative. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 The Geriatric .Long-Stay Hospital Patient: A Canadian Case Study Evelyn Shapiro and Noralou P. ROOS,University of Manitoba Abstract. This...

... make these audiences unclear and not readily accessible. This factor and historical characteristics of the research community which made them only partially responsive to the values of decisionmakers provide an explanation for the limited past use of research information in Canadian health policy. More...

...Robert G. Evans Canadians are, by and large, satisfied with their health care system. It is for them a symbol of their community and distinguishes them from the United States. Unlike the health system of that country, it is universal, comprehensive, and accessible, and it costs less as a percentage...

... an organization that works shoulder to shoulder with health sys- tem leaders to tackle tough and systemic barriers to reform, the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation is pleased to introduce this issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law on real reform in health systems...

...Robert G. Evans During the 1970s the share of health care expenditure in Canadian GNP remained roughly stable, in the range of 7-71/4 percent of GNP, in marked contrast to its escalation in most other countries (the U.S. in particular) and to previous Canadian experience. The shift to a stable...

... outpatient prescription drugs is not. To solve problems of access, Canadian provinces have introduced provincial prescription drug benefit programs. This study analyzes the prescription drug policymaking process in five Canadian provinces between 1992 and 2004 with a view to (1) determining the federal...

...Barry G. Rabe Hazardous waste management poses increasing problems for Canadian provinces and American states, given the vast quantities and types of wastes generated and the virtual inability to open new storage, treatment, or disposal facilities. The Canadian experience is very similar to the...

...Kenneth E. Thorpe Most comparisons of the relative effectiveness of cost containment in the Canadian and U.S. health systems trace Canada's greater success to its single-payer approach. However, these studies ignore the substantial variation that exists in hospital and personal health care spending...

... for increasing registration rates. This article uses a combination of survey and focus group methodologies to explore the reaction of Canadians to a reciprocity proposal. Our results suggest that the response is mixed. Participants are more convinced of the efficacy than they are of the fairness of a...

... examples of rationing. The Oregon Medicaid reform process is considered an important example of transparent and community-level rationing from which Canadian executive-driven governments can learn a few valuable lessons. While the Oregon experiment seems to have been a (qualified) success, in the Canadian...

... discussion is any talk about the relative out-of-pocket costs of alternative models. In this paper, we provide data on these costs for American and Canadian elderly for medical, hospital, and ambulatory pharmaceutical use. Despite the fact that the elderly in America are generally viewed as facing fewer...