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July 15, 2025

Discuss and Debate - Advice or Advocacy – Varying Perceptions of Health Services and Policy Researcher Activities

The findings from our study can help health services and policy researchers and policy makers understand that some common activities in health services and policy research may be perceived as advocacy and reflect on where their own activities fall in the spectrum of advice to advocacy. Read about this study in the latest issue of Healthcare Policy.

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This paper examines trends in the evolution of the primary care nurse practitioner (NP) workforce in Canada. Specifically, it focuses on two linear regression models. One, unsurprisingly, shows that the number of NPs per capita is positively correlated with the proportion of people declaring having an NP as their regular provider. The second shows that the proportion of patients without a regular provider in a province is very strongly correlated with the proportion of people declaring having an [...]

 

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