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Getting from Analysis to Action: Framing Obesity Research, Policy and Practice with a Solution-Oriented Complex Systems Lens 
Diane T. Finegood, Özge Karanfil and Carrie L. Matteson
[This article was originally published in HealthcarePapers, Volume 9, Number 1.]
Public policy aimed at reducing obesity is just one of many avenues that must be pursued to...
Updated: Jan 2009
Registered Nurses and Licensed/Registered Practical Nurses: A Description and Comparison of Their Decision-Making Process
Sheryl Boblin, Pamela Baxter, Kim Alvarado, Andrea Baumann and Noori Akhtar-Danesh
[This article was originally published in Nursing Leadership, Volume 21, Number 4.]
In many parts of Canada, nursing care is provided by registered nurses (RNs) and...
Updated: Jan 2009
"Mind the Gap": Seven Key Issues in Aligning Medical Education and Healthcare Policy
Joanna Bates, Chris Lovato, and Terri Buller-Taylor
[This article was originally published in Healthcare Policy, Volume 4, Number 2.]
To ensure an adequate supply of physicians for the future, Canadian faculties of medicine...
Updated: Jan 2009
Tortoises 1, Hares 0: How Comparative Health Trends between Canada and the United States Support a Long-term View of Policy and Health
Clyde Hertzman and Arjumand Siddiqi
[This article was originally published in Healthcare Policy, Volume 4, Number 2.]
Fifty years ago, Canadian and US life expectancies were roughly equal. Now, however,...
Updated: Jan 2009
Health Services Researchers Working within Healthcare Organizations: The Intriguing Sound of Three Hands Clapping
Roger Chafe and Mark Dobrow
[This article was originally published in Healthcare Policy, Volume 4, Number 2.]
Healthcare organizations offer a promising but complicated work environment for health...
Updated: Jan 2009
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 Kędoté
[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
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