Healthcare Policy
Healthcare policy research and translation. Peer reviewed. For health system policy makers, decision makers, academics and students. Authors come from a broad range of disciplines including healthcare, social sciences, humanities, ethics, law, management sciences, and knowledge translation. Average time to initial decision is two to three weeks. Average time to first review is 12 weeks. Edited by Dr. Jason Sutherland, Director, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
A Canadian Call for Addressing Physical Health in Specialized Mental Health Settings
Cara Evans, Christopher Canning, Munazzah Ambreen, Brian Lo, Mary Rose Van Kesteren, Caroline M.E. Walker and Vicky Stergiopoulous
How Good Reforms Fail: The Warning Example of Alberta’s Borderless EMS System
Janna Newton, Travis Carpenter and Jennifer Zwicker
Commentary: The Canadian Healthcare Crisis and the Emerging Role of Paramedicine
Michael Feldman and Donald L. Pierce
Pre-Release
Commentary: The Fraying at the Edges of the Public Healthcare System in Canada
Deborah Milinkovic and Jeremiah Hurley
Advice or advocacy – Varying perceptions of health services and policy researcher activities
P. Alison Paprica, Walter P. Wodchis and Kimberlyn M. McGrail
The Role and Influence of Federally Established Health Policy Advisory Bodies in Canada
Amity E. Quinn, Rachelle Drummond, Tom Noseworthy, Fiona Clement, Stephana Moss, Emily FitzGerald, Melanie Columbus, Brenlea Farkas and Henry T. Stelfox
Advance Requests for Medical Assistance in Dying in the International Context: Some Legal Issues for the Canadian Case
Luis Espericueta
Adolescent Access to Abortion Care in Canada: Age, Capacity and Parental Consent
Alana Cattapan, Kathleen Hammond and Eleanor McGrath