Paradigm Freeze: Why It Is So Hard to Reform Health-Care Policy in Canada: Why It Is So Hard to Reform Health Care in Canada - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1553393244 ISBN 13: 9781553393245

Casa editrice: Queens Univ School of Policy, 2013

Riassunto

Why has health care reform proved a stumbling block for provincial governments across Canada? What efforts have been made to improve a struggling system, and how have they succeeded or failed? In Paradigm Freeze, experts in the field answer these fundamental questions by examining and comparing six essential policy issues - regionalization, needs-based funding, alternative payment plans, privatization, waiting lists, and prescription drug coverage - in five provinces. Noting hundreds of recommendations from dozens of reports commissioned by provincial governments over the last quarter century - the great majority to little or no avail - the book focuses on careful diagnosis, rather than unplanned treatment, of the problem. Paradigm Freeze is based on thirty case studies of policy reform in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador. The contributors assess the nature and extent of healthcare reform in Canada since the beginning of the 1990s. They account for the generally limited extent of reform that has occurred, and identify the factors associated with the relatively few cases of large reform. An insightful new perspective on a problem that has plagued Canadian governments for decades, Paradigm Freeze is an important addition to the field of health policy. Contributors include John Church (University of Alberta), Michael Ducie (Alberta Health and Wellness), Pierre-Gerlier Forest (Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation), Stephen Tomblin (Memorial University), Jeff Braun Jackson (Ontario Professional Firefighters Association, Burlington, ON), Marie-Pascale Pomey (Université de Montréal), John N. Lavis (McMaster University), Harvey Lazar (Queen's University), Elisabeth Martin (Université Laval),Tom McIntosh (University of Regina), Dianna Pasic (McMaster University), Neale Smith (University of British Columbia), and Michael G. Wilson (McMaster University).

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L'autore:

Harvey Lazar is adjunct professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and a fellow at the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's University. Pierre-Gerlier Forest is president of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. John N. Lavis is professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, director, McMaster Health Forum, and associate director, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University. John Church is associate professor, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta.

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• Editore: Queens Univ School of Policy
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1553393244
• ISBN 13: 9781553393245
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 398
• Redattore: Lazar Harvey, Lavis John N., Forest Pierre-Gerlier, Church John