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Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy |
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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.
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.
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Part of the Queen's Policy Studies Series (number 190 in series)
302 Pages, 6 x 9
Queen's Policy Studies Series - School of Policy Studies
ISBN 9781553395027
October 2016
Formats: Paperback, eBook
A. Scott Carson is Stauffer-Dunning Chair of Policy Studies and executive director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University.
Kim Richard Nossal is a professor in the Department of Political Studies and the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University.
Kim Richard Nossal is a professor in the Department of Political Studies and the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements.................................... v
Contributors.........................................vii
List of Abbreviations................................xiii
Introduction: Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy .............. 1
A. Scott Carson
PART 1: MEASURING AND MONITORING A HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
1. From Performance Measurement to Performance Management................. 19
Jeremy Veillard, Keith Denny, Brenda Tipper, and Niek Klazinga
2. Targeting Improvements through Local Health Performance Reporting:
The Australian Experience ............................................... 53
Adam Cresswell and Diane Watson
3. International Experience with Health System Performance
Assessment.............................................................. 81
Peter C. Smith
PART 2: STAKEHOLDERS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE
4. Harnessing Patients’ Voices for Improving the Healthcare System .......... 103
Sabrina T. Wong and Julia M. Langton
5. Patient Engagement for Healthcare System Change...................... 125
Monica C. LaBarge, Jay M. Handelman, and Alex Mitchell
6. Engaging Patients and the Public in Planning for Care and Driving
Healthcare Reforms...................................................... 143
Réjean Hébert
7. The Role of the Private Sector in Canadian Healthcare: Accountability,
Strategic Alliances, and Governance..................................... 155
A. Scott Carson
8. Healthcare Professionals as Agents of Change ....................... 183
Christopher S. Simpson, Karima A. Velji, Lisa Ashley, and Owen Adams
PART 3: MOVING HEALTHCARE REFORM FORWARD
9. Clearing the Way: Beyond the Roadblocks to Healthcare Reform........... 205
Neale Smith and Harvey Lazar
10. An Action Plan for Reforming Healthcare in Canada.................... 235
Don Drummond and Talitha Calder
Appendices.............................................................. 263
Acknowledgements.................................... v
Contributors.........................................vii
List of Abbreviations................................xiii
Introduction: Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy .............. 1
A. Scott Carson
PART 1: MEASURING AND MONITORING A HEALTHCARE STRATEGY
1. From Performance Measurement to Performance Management................. 19
Jeremy Veillard, Keith Denny, Brenda Tipper, and Niek Klazinga
2. Targeting Improvements through Local Health Performance Reporting:
The Australian Experience ............................................... 53
Adam Cresswell and Diane Watson
3. International Experience with Health System Performance
Assessment.............................................................. 81
Peter C. Smith
PART 2: STAKEHOLDERS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE
4. Harnessing Patients’ Voices for Improving the Healthcare System .......... 103
Sabrina T. Wong and Julia M. Langton
5. Patient Engagement for Healthcare System Change...................... 125
Monica C. LaBarge, Jay M. Handelman, and Alex Mitchell
6. Engaging Patients and the Public in Planning for Care and Driving
Healthcare Reforms...................................................... 143
Réjean Hébert
7. The Role of the Private Sector in Canadian Healthcare: Accountability,
Strategic Alliances, and Governance..................................... 155
A. Scott Carson
8. Healthcare Professionals as Agents of Change ....................... 183
Christopher S. Simpson, Karima A. Velji, Lisa Ashley, and Owen Adams
PART 3: MOVING HEALTHCARE REFORM FORWARD
9. Clearing the Way: Beyond the Roadblocks to Healthcare Reform........... 205
Neale Smith and Harvey Lazar
10. An Action Plan for Reforming Healthcare in Canada.................... 235
Don Drummond and Talitha Calder
Appendices.............................................................. 263
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