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Medical Health Policy

Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy

edited by A. Scott Carson & Kim Richard Nossal

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2017
Category
Health Policy
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781553395027
    Publish Date
    Oct 2016
    List Price
    $45.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781553395041
    Publish Date
    Mar 2017
    List Price
    $29.95

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Canada’s fragmented healthcare system is one of the most expensive among the OECD countries, yet the quality of its performance is mediocre at best. Canada lacks a system-wide healthcare strategy that brings together many individual federal, provincial, and territorial strategies into a comprehensive and coherent whole.

Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy is a collection of ten policy research essays by leading Canadian and international scholars who address three important questions. First, if Canada had a unifying strategy, how would the country measure its success and monitor its performance? Second, who are the agents of change to bring about a Canadian system-wide strategy? Third, how can the jurisdictional realities of Canada’s political system be managed to bring about strategic reform? The final section in the volume explores ways to overcome the barriers and impediments that preoccupy Canadians’ concerns about healthcare.

A companion volume to Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians, the contributors to Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy turn to the critical importance of how necessary healthcare changes can be best implemented.

About the authors

A. Scott Carson is professor of strategy and director of the Monieson Centre for Business Research in Healthcare at Queen's School of Business.

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Kim Richard Nossal is a professor of political science at Queen’s University. He is a former president of the Canadian Political Science Association and former editor of International Journal. From 2001 to 2012, he was the chair of the academic selection committee of the Security and Defence Forum of the Department of National Defence. He is also the author of a number of works on Canada’s foreign and defence policy. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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