Canadian Public Administration articles from December 2006

Canadian Public Administration archives from December 2006

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
December 22, 2006... It gives me great pleasure to introduce this special issue of articles on health care policy and innovation. Health care has become one of the dominant public policy and management issues in Canada. Based upon a recent survey cited by Paul...

Introduction de la redactrice en chef.(editor's introduction to issue on public health concerns in Canada)
December 22, 2006... C'est un grand plaisir pour moi de presenter ce numero special comprenant des articles sur la politique et l'innovation en matiere de soins de sante. Les soins de sante sont devenus l'une des questions qui dominent la politique et la gestion...

From good intentions to successful implementation: the case of patient safety in Canada.
December 22, 2006... This paper applies implementation theory from the public policy and public management literature to the practical issues involved with the development and advancement of the leading ideas driving the patient safety movement within the Canadian...

La responsabilisation du patient dans un contexte de telesoins a domicile.(Author abstract)
December 22, 2006... Au Quebec comme ailleurs au Canada, on assiste a la recherche et a la promotion de modes de prise en charge des patients et des questions de sante que l'on veut moins lourds, couteux et centralises que ceux lies au modele hospitalier...

A cancer control strategy and deliberative federalism: modernizing health care and democratizing intergovernmental relations.(Author abstract)
December 22, 2006... Developing the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control (CSCC) has involved a model for conducting intergovernmental and inter-sectoral relations markedly different from executive federalism, the dominant style of Canadian intergovernmental...

Health reform and privatization in Alberta.(Author abstract)
December 22, 2006... Introduction Over a period of seven years, from 1993 to 2000, the Government of Alberta responded to the issue of privatization of health care service delivery through a variety of policy instruments, culminating in 2000 with the passage...

Whatever happened to regionalization? The curious case of Nova Scotia.
December 22, 2006... Regionalization has been a key health care strategy for almost all provinces for well over a decade. By the mid-1990s, most provincial governments had produced commissioned reports and task forces directed towards the goal of improving the...

Reinvigorating publicly funded medicare in Ontario: new public policy and public administration techniques.
December 22, 2006... When elected in 2003, the new Ontario government faced a daunting health care reform agenda and a major fiscal and bureaucratic repositioning agenda, and both agendas were on an accelerated timetable. In response, the Ontario public service...

The Vanier Medal/La Medaille Vanier.(Institute of Public Administration of Canada)
December 22, 2006... The Institute of Public Administration of Canada awards annually a gold medal as a mark of distinction and exceptional achievement to a person who, in the opinion of a panel of independent judges, has shown distinctive leadership in public...

The Institute of Public Administration of Canada/L'Institut d'administration publique du Canada Recipients of Vanier Medal/ Recipiendaires de la medaille Vanier.
December 22, 2006... NOTE: Positions shown are those occupied when the Medal was awarded. Lors de la remise de la medaille, les recipiendaires occupaient les postes ci-dessous. 1962 DR. H.L. KEENLEYSIDE Chairman, British Columbia Power Commission/President de...

Health Systems in Transition: Canada.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Health Systems in Transition: Canada By GREGORY P. MARCHILDON. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 156. Greg Marchildon has produced a concise and accessible treatment of the Canadian health care system that will rapidly...

Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate Over Private Health Insurance in Canada.(Book review)
December 22, 2006... Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate Over Private Health Insurance in Canada Edited by COLLEEN FLOOD, KENT ROACH and LORNE SOSSIN. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2005. Pp. 611. On June 9, 2005, the Supreme Court of...