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Building Public Support for Anti-obesity Policy Initiatives 
Bruce Silverglade
[This article was originally published in HealthcarePapers, Volume 9, Number 1.]
Solving the obesity crisis has less to do with post-partisanship and more to do with...
Updated: Nov 2008
The Prevention Moment: A Post-partisan Approach to Obesity Policy
Neil Seeman
[This article was originally published in HealthcarePapers, Volume 9, Number 1.]
Multi-sector, broad legislative support for obesity policy is of critical importance to...
Updated: Nov 2008
Getting from Fat to Fit: The Role of Policy in the Obesity Disaster
Suzanne Havala Hobbs
[This article was originally published in HealthcarePapers, Volume 9, Number 1.]
Increasing health and economic costs of overweight and obesity underscore the urgency of...
Updated: Nov 2008
Yes, Virginia, There Are System Benefits to Be Gained from Providing Patients Access to Their Own Health Information
Kevin J. Leonard, David Wiljer and Sara Urowitz
[This article was originally published in Healthcare Quarterly, Volume 11, Number 4.]
BackgroundIn the 1960s, Pierre Trudeau popularized the phrase "The Just...
Updated: Nov 2008
The British Columbia Alliance on Telehealth Research and Policy
Scott A. Lear, Joanna Bates, Josée G. Lavoie, Suzanne Johnston and Richard E. Scott on behalf of the British Columbia Alliance on Telehealth Research and Policy
[This article was originally published in Healthcare Quarterly, Volume 11, Number 4.] BackgroundThe past decade has seen a growing trend in the establishment of...
Updated: Oct 2008
Evaluating Interventions Aimed at Promoting Information Utilization in Organizations and Systems
Damien Contandriopoulos, Astrid Brousselle and Nonvignon Marius Kêdoté
[This article was originally published in Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé , Volume 4, Number 1.]
This paper presents a theoretical and practical framework for...
Updated: Oct 2008
Saving Ontario Healthcare Dollars through E-health Standardization: A Quantitative Study
Yaron Derman, Simon La, Jingping Ji, Natalia Lizon and Anthony Kung
[This article was originally published in Electronic Healthcare , Volume 7, Number 2.] Health information and information technology professionals intuitively sense that the...
Updated: Oct 2008
Whose Record Is It Anyway? Putting Patients' Interests at the Heart of the Implementation and Use of Electronic Medical Records
Rebecca L. Mador, Nicola T. Shaw, Stephen Cheetham and Robert J. Reid
[This article was originally published in Electronic Healthcare, Volume 7, Number 2.] With the dawn of electronic medical records (EMRs) and patient portals, there is an...
Updated: Oct 2008
The Beneficial Role of a Judicial Process When "Everything" Is Too Much?
Mark Handelman and Bob Parke
[This article was originally published in Healthcare Quarterly, Volume 11, Number 4.] This narrative is written with the intent to encourage physicians as well as other healthcare...
Updated: Oct 2008
Measure for Measure? The Challenge of New Thinking about Patient Safety
Samuel B. Sheps
[This article was originally published in HealthcarePapers, Volume 8, Number 4.]
Penfold and colleagues, in this issue of Healthcare Papers, provide a comprehensive...
Updated: Sep 2008
Do Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratios Measure Patient Safety? HSMRs in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Robert B. Penfold, Stafford Dean, Ward Flemons and Michael Moffatt
[This article was originally published in HealthcarePapers, Volume 8, Number 4.] The Canadian Institute for Health Information began publishing hospital standardized mortality...
Updated: Sep 2008
Health System Organization and Governance in Canada and Australia: A Comparison of Historical Developments, Recent Policy Changes and Future Implications
Donald J. Philippon and Jeffrey Braithwaite
[This article was originally published in Healthcare Policy, Volume 4, Number 1.] The Canadian and Australian health systems have evolved in very similar ways. Recent policy...
Updated: Sep 2008
Work Mistreatment and Hospital Administrative Staff: Policy Implications for Healthier Workplaces
Karen P. Harlos and Lawrence J. Axelrod
[This article was originally published in Healthcare Policy, Volume 4, Number 1.] Research on work life quality in hospitals has focused on how nurses and physicians perceive or...
Updated: Sep 2008
The Helix in the Labyrinth: Do We Need Genetic Health Services and Policy Research?
Fiona Alice Miller, Brenda Wilson, Jeremy Grimshaw, Renaldo Battista, Ingeborg Blancquaert, June C. Carroll, François Rousseau and Barbara Slater
[This article was originally published in Healthcare Policy, Volume 4, Number 1.] In Canada and elsewhere, targeted health services and policy research (HSPR) has been...
Updated: Sep 2008
Developing Health System Surge Capacity: Community Efforts in Jeopardy
Laurie E. Felland, Aaron Katz, Allison Liebhaber, Genna Cohen
Since Sept. 11, 2001, communities have responded to the federal call to enhance health care surge capacity-the space, supplies, staffing and management structure to care for many injured or ill people during a terrorist attack, natural disaster or...
Updated: Jul 2008
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