Robert G, Evans - The Undisciplined Economist
For four decades Robert G. Evans has been Canada’s foremost health policy analyst and commentator, playing a leadership role in the development of both health economics and population health at home and internationally.
Robert G. Evans, PhD, Faculty, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research Emeritus Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, UBC. He can be reached at bob.evans@ubc.ca.
The Undisciplined Economist
Health, Wealth and the Price of Oil
Migrants, Manpower and Math in the Coming Europe
“Frankly, My Dear, I Don’t Give a Damn”
Waste, Economists and American Healthcare
"It Doesn't Have to Be This Way"
Putting Some Mustard into Economic Growth
A Casualty in the Class War: Canada's Medicare
Hancocked: Manulife and the Limits of Private Health Insurance
Stumbling over Iron Rice Bowls: The Quest for Integrated Continuing Care for the Elderly
The TSX Gives a Short Course in Health Economics: It's the Prices, Stupid!
Tough on Crime? Pfizer and the CIHR
The Blind Men, the Elephant and the CT Scanner
Kafka, New Orleans, the OARs and the KT Boundary
Baneful Legacy: Medicare and Mr. Trudeau
From World War to Class War: The Rebound of the Rich
There's No Reason for It, It's Just Our Policy
The Iron Chancellor and the Fabian
Old Bones, New Data: Emmett Hall, Private Insurance and the Defeat of Pharmacare
Thomas McKeown, Meet Fidel Castro: Physicians, Population Health and the Cuban Paradox
Mr. Harrington, Self-Rated Health and the Canadian Chicken
Green Leviathan? Thomas Hobbes, Joel Bakan and Arnold Schwarzenegger;
Fat Zombies, Pleistocene Tastes, Autophilia and the "Obesity Epidemic"
Articles by Robert G. Evans and others:
Will Paying the Piper Change the Tune? Jason M. Sutherland, Morris L. Barer, Robert G. Evans and R. Trafford Crump
Two Wings and a Prayer: Should Canada Make It Easier for Canadian Doctors Trained Abroad to Enter Practice Here? Morris L. Barer, Robert G. Evans and Lindsay Hedden
Diagnosing Senescence: Contributions to Physician Expenditure Increases in British Columbia, 1996/97 to 2005/06 Kimberlyn M. McGrail, Robert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer, Kerry J. Kerluke and Rachael McKendry
Pharaoh and the Prospects for Productivity in HHR Robert G. Evans, Morris L. Barer and David G. Schneider
Richard III, Barer-Stoddart and the Daughter of Time Robert G. Evans and Kimberlyn M. McGrail
Income-Based Drug Coverage in British Columbia: Lessons for BC and the Rest of Canada Steve Morgan, Robert G. Evans, Gillian E. Hanley, Patricia A. Caetano and Charlyn Black
High Reliability versus High Autonomy: Dryden, Murphy and Patient Safety Robert G. Evans, Karen Cardiff and Sam Sheps
The Doctor is Out: Physician Participation in the Rationed Access Day Work Stoppage in British Columbia, 1998/99 Robert J. Reid, David Schneider, Morris Barer, Robin Hanvelt, Kimberlyn McGrail, Nino Pagliccia and Robert G. Evans
Strangulation or Rationalization? Costs and Access in Canadian Hospitals Morris L. Barer, Steven G. Morgan and Robert G. Evans
Podcasts
High Reliability versus High Autonomy: Dryden, Murphy and Patient Safety Robert G. Evans, Karen Cardiff and Sam Sheps
Baneful Legacy: Medicare and Mr. Trudeau
From World War to Class War: The Rebound of the Rich