Description
Book SynopsisCovering a wide range of issues, the 22 cases included in Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management constitute an exceptional resource for bringing real-life policy questions into the classroom. Based on actual events, the cases have been developed with input from mid-career professionals with strong field experience and extensively tested in Raisa B. Deber’s graduate case study seminar at the University of Toronto. Each case features both a substantive health policy issue and a selection of key concepts and methods appropriate to examining public policy, public health, and health care management issues.
In each case, the authors provide a summary of the case and the related policy issues, a description of events, suggested questions for discussion, supporting information, and both works cited and further reading. Suitable for graduate and undergraduate classrooms in programs in a variety of fields, Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Man
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 - Concepts for the Policy Analyst Raisa Deber Chapter 2 - Danger at the Gates? Screening for Tuberculosis in Immigrants and Refugees Michael Gardam, Marisa Creatore, and Raisa Deber Chapter 3 - Making Canadians Healthier: Where Do We Start? Nurlan Algashov, Patricia Baranek, Cheri Biscope, Kathryn Clarke, Mark Dobrow, Asmita Gillani, Irene Koo, Catherine L. Mah, Brandy McKenna, Michele Parent, Miriam Alton Scharf, Shahzad Siddiqui, Louise Signal, Rachel Wortzman, and Raisa Deber Chapter 4 - Trimming the Fat: Dealing with Obesity Katerina Gapanenko, Catherine L. Mah, Shaheena Mukhi, David Rudoler, and Raisa Deber Chapter 5 - Trouble on Tap Brenda Gamble, Nancy Kraetschmer, Kenneth Cheak Kwan Lam, Catherine L. Mah, Caroline Rafferty, and Raisa Deber Chapter 6 - The Bite of Blood Safety: Screening Blood For West Nile Virus Helen Looker, David Reeleder, and Raisa Deber Chapter 7 - Looking for Trouble: Developing and Implementing a National Network for Infectious Disease Surveillance in Canada Christopher W. McDougall, David Kirsch, Brian Schwartz, and Raisa Deber Chapter 8 - Filling in the Gaps: The Decision to Utilize Agency Nursing in Tarman Hospital Karen Arthurs, Andrea Baumann, Doreen Day, Sarah Dimmock, Leah Levesque, Eleanor Ross, Vera Ingrid Tarman, and Raisa Deber Chapter 9 - Midwifery: Special Delivery Karen Born, Carole-Anne Chiasson, Shawna Gutfreund, Lisa Jackson, Esther Levy, Judy Litwack-Goldman, Elizabeth McCarthy, Wendy Sutton, Betty Wu-Lawrence, and Raisa Deber Chapter 10 - The Demanding Supply: Licensing International Doctors and Nurses in Ontario Mohamad Alameddine, Charles Battershill, Andrea Baumann, Maureen Boon, Karen Born, Andrea Cortinois, Rinku Dhaliwal, Adam M. Dukelow, David Hoff, Carolina Jimenez, Nibal Lubbad, Maria Mathews, Glen Randall, Melissa Rausch, and Raisa Deber. Chapter 11 - Primary Health Care in Ontario: Inching Towards Reform Monica Aggarwal, Munaza Chaudhry, Stephanie Gan, Nada Victoria Ghandour, William Kou, Leslie MacMillan, Catherine L. Mah, Meghan McMahon, Lucinda Montizambert, Allie Peckham, David Rudoler, Rena Singer-Gordon, Debra Zelisko, and Raisa Deber Chapter 12 - At Any Price? Paying for New Cancer Drugs Laurie Bourne, Rachna Chaudhary, David Ford, Olivia Hagemeyer, Christopher J. Longo, Elaine Meertens, and Raisa Deber Chapter 13 - What to Do With the Queue? Reducing Wait Times for Cancer Care John Blake, Daniel Bolland, Ian Dawe, Brenda Gamble, Gunita Mitera, Natalie (Wajs) Rashkovan, Somayeh Sadat, Kenneth Van Wyk, and Raisa Deber Chapter 14 - Down the Tubes: Should In Vitro Fertilization Be Insured in Ontario? Talar Boyajian, Susan Bronskill, Sheryl Farrar, Erin Gilbart, Seija K. Kromm, Lise Labrecque, Mina Mawani, Wendy Medved, Phyllis Tanaka, Dan Tassie, Judy Verbeeten, and Raisa Deber Chapter 15 - Prescription for Conflict Bev Lever, Laura Esmail, Linda Gail Young, and Raisa Deber Chapter 16 - Ask Your Doctor: Direct to Consumer Advertising of Prescription Medicines Chris Bonnett, Christopher J. Longo, Yeesha Poon, and Raisa Deber Chapter 17 - Rehabilitating Auto Insurance Paul Holyoke, Marie Balitbit, Lee Tasker, and Raisa Deber Chapter 18 - Everybody Out of the Pool: Financing Health Expenditures through Medical Savings Accounts Kenneth Cheak Kwan Lam, Mark Rovere, and Raisa Deber Chapter 19 - Long Term Care Reform in Ontario: "The Long Delivery" Patricia Baranek, Jane-Anne Campbell, Kerry Kuluski, Christopher Longo, Frances Morton-Chang, Karen Spalding, Carolyn Steele Gray, Fern Teplitsky, Romy Joseph Thomas, Jillian Watkins, Anne Wojtak, and Raisa Deber Chapter 20 - Depending on How You Cut It: Resource Allocation by a Community Care Access Centre Jane-Anne Campbell, Heather Chappell, Joanne Greco, Jeff Hohenkerk, Joshua Kline, Shannon L. Sibbald, Karen Spalding, Fern Teplitsky, Anne Wojtak, and Raisa Deber Chapter 21 - Shoot and Tell: Mandatory Gunshot Wound Reporting by Physicians Carrie-Lynn Haines, Julie Holmes, Paul Miller, Sharon Vanin, and Raisa Deber Chapter 22 - Dying to Die: Euthanasia and (Physician-) Assisted Suicide Christopher A. Klinger, Joe Slack, and Raisa Deber Chapter 23 - Screen Tests Yvonne Bombard, Marion Byce, Celine Cressman, Rea Devakos, Daniel Farris, Daune Macgregor, Zahava R.S. Rosenberg-Yunger, Natasha Sharpe, and Raisa Deber About the Contributors
