Health Care - Organizational and Delivery
- The 10th Annual Health Care in Canada Survey. A national survey of health care providers, managers, and the public
This is the tenth edition of the Health Care in Canada Survey, the most comprehensive survey of Canadian public and health care providers’ opinions on health care issues. (Mar 2008)
- Health Systems Assessment Approach: A How-to Manual
The Health Systems Assessment Approach: A How-To Manual is designed to provide a rapid yet comprehensive assessment of a country's health system. The approach covers key health systems functions and is organized around seven technical modules, which guide data collection and assessment: core module, governance, health financing, health service delivery, human resources, pharmaceutical management, health information systems. (Mar 2008)
- Capital Health Edmonton Area - How healthy are we? (2006)
- 2006 Health Care in Canada Survey - More working poor using food banks: study
- Report on the Health of Albertans - July 2006 Report gives historical look at health status of Albertans
- Towards a New Architecture for Canada's Adult Benefits (2006) [Search in Publication dates - 2006] This paper advances the Caledon Institute of Social Policy's work on the modernization agenda in a large area of Canadian social policy that has for the most part defied successful reform - income security programs and supportive services for working-age adults, which Caledon has dubbed 'adult benefits.'
- Getting On With Better Health Care Alberta is moving ahead with its third way of health delivery, as promised by Premier Ralph Klein early in 2005. Getting on with Better Health Care outlines 12 renewal initiatives for 2005 and 2006. This made-in-Alberta approach is about unleashing innovation, challenging the status quo and charting a new course to make our health care system among the best in the world.
- Setting priorities in health care organizations: criteria, processes, and parameters of success This paper by Jennifer L Gibson, Douglas K Martin and Peter A Singer identifies 8 priority setting criteria, 10 key priority setting process elements, and 6 parameters of success. Decision-makers can draw lessons from these findings to enhance the fairness of their priority setting decision-making. [Source: E-watch on innovation in health services]
- A Thousand Points of Light? Moving Forward on Primary health care This document is a synthesis of the key themes and ideas from the National Primary Health Care Conference held in Winnipeg, Manitoba on May 16-19, 2004. [Source: E-watch on innovation in health services]
- Alberta Ministry of Health and Wellness Annual Report 2006/2007
- Assessing New Models for the Delivery of Medical Services: Inventory and Synthesis This study by Hollander Analytical Services Ltd explores more than 100 different models developed in all regions of Canada in response to the tremendous pressures on the health care system brought about by many factors, including shortages of physicians in certain disciplines and regions of the country. The innovative models respond to the pressures by addressing a range of issues surrounding training, recruitment and retention, remuneration and an increasing desire among physicians for a balanced personal and professional life. [Submitted Apr 5, 2004---Source: KUUC: E-watch on innovation in health services]
- Benchmarking as a Tool for Public Health and Health Promotion [Source: OHPE Bulletin 223.1]
- Creating Conditions for Health Canadian Public Health Association Statement for Romanow Commission (pdf)
- Health Technology Assessment: Alberta's Needs and Future Directions Alberta Health and Wellness (AHW) and the HTA Unit of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) sponsored a workshop on September 21-22, 2003 in Edmonton to assist in: Identifying Alberta needs from the Canadian health technology assessment strategy; and Identifying the mechanisms and collaborations to meet Alberta's needs. Here is the summary of results of the Consultation Workshop.[Source: [KUUC] E-Watch on Innovation in Health Services Jan 12, 2004]
- New Considerations on the Empirical Analysis of Health Expenditures in Canada: 1966-1998 The purpose of this paper is to empirically study the factors that impact the Canadian provincial governments' real per capita health expenditures and to determine if health care expenditures in Canada grow more than proportionally with any increase in income, as in the case of a luxury good (income elasticity greater than one) [Source: E-watch on innovation in health services]
- ParticipACTION: The Mouse That Roared. A Marketing and Health Communications Success Story The supplement is designed to be a learning tool and reference for leaders, government officials, teachers and post-secondary students in physical activity, public health, health promotion and social marketing. It was written by a team of health communication experts who volunteered their time to analyze and tell the 30-year story of the world's longest running social marketing program on physical activity. Their goal was to share the strategies and learnings from the ParticipACTION experience in the hope that they will prove useful to future health promotion and active living initiatives in Canada and around the world.
- Patterns of Global Health Expenditures: Results for 191 Countries This paper by the World Health Organization (WHO) deals with topics such as health spending at the international level, health spending and health outcomes, the composition and structure of health spending, private spending, external resources. [Source: E-watch on innovation in health services]
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