Healthcare Policy

Vol. 2 No. 4 2007

Editorial

Divvying Up the Funding Pie: What Share for Health Services and Policy Research?

Brian Hutchison

The Undisciplined Economist

Mr. Harrington, Self-Rated Health and the Canadian Chicken

Robert G. Evans

Discussion and Debate

The New General Practice Contract and Reform of Primary Care in the United Kingdom

Stephen Peckham

Shopping for High-Technology Treatment in Another Province

Giselle Revah and Chaim Bell

Data Matters

Home Care Evolution in Alberta: How Have Palliative Clients Fared?

Donna M. Wilson, Corrine Truman, Joe Huang, Sam Sheps, Stephen Birch, Roger Thomas and Tom Noseworthy

Knowledge Translation, Linkage and Exchange

A Community-Researcher Alliance to Improve Chronic Wound Care

Ian D. Graham, Margaret B. Harrison, Bob Cerniuk and Sheila Bauer

Research Papers

Why Equity in Financing First Nations On-Reserve Health Services Matters: Findings from the 2005 National Evaluation of the Health Transfer Policy

Josée G. Lavoie, Evelyn Forget and John D. O'Neil

The Relationship between Characteristics of Home Care Nursing Service Contracts under Managed Competition and Continuity of Care and Client Outcomes: Evidence from Ontario

Diane Doran, Jennie Pickard, Janet Harris, Peter C. Coyte, Andrew R. MacRae, Heather Laschinger, Gerarda Darlington and Jennifer Carryer

Notice of Compliance with Conditions: A Policy in Limbo

Joel Lexchin

Medicare Financing and Redistribution in British Columbia, 1992 and 2002

Kimberlyn McGrail

Online Only

Advancing Health Promotion Priorities: Stories of Capacity Building from the Canadian Heart Health Initiative (CHHI)

S. Michelle Driedger, Kerry Robinson, John Eyles, Susan Elliott, Adele Iannantuono and the CHHDP Strategic and Research Advisory Groups

Innovations in the Ethical Review of Health-Related Quality Improvement and Research: The Alberta Research Ethics Community Consensus Initiative (ARECCI)

Brad Hagen, Maeve O'Beirne, Sunil Desai, Michael Stingl, Cathy Anne Pachnowski and Sarah Hayward

To Count Heads or To Count Services? Comparing Population-to-Physician Methods with Utilization-Based Methods for Physician Workforce Planning: A Case Study in a Remote Rural Administrative Region of British Columbia

Lorne Verhulst, Christopher B. Forrest and Mike McFadden

Involving Decision-Makers in Producing Syntheses: The Case of the Research Collective on Primary Healthcare in Quebec

Raynald Pineault, Pierre Tousignant, Danièle Roberge, Paul Lamarche, Daniel Reinharz, Danielle Larouche, Ginette Beaulne and Dominique Lesage