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"Mind the Gap": Seven Key Issues in Aligning Medical Education and Healthcare Policy

To ensure an adequate supply of physicians for the future, Canadian faculties of medicine have been expanding and modifying physician training at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels with the intention of producing more physicians and addressing long-standing challenges in the Canadian physi...

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Sustaining Canadian Medicare
The Undisciplined Economist
Tortoises 1, Hares 0: How Comparative Health Trends between Canada and the United States Support a Long-term View of Policy and Health
Dialogue
Interview with Penny Ballem
Discussion and Debate
Health Services Researchers Working within Healthcare Organizations: The Intriguing Sound of Three Hands Clapping
Data Matters
How Busy Are Private MRI Centres in Canada?
Knowledge, Translation, Linkage and Exchange
Performance Reporting to Help Organizations Promote Quality Improvement
Health Technology Briefs
Vascular Ultrasound Screening for Asymptomatic Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Research Papers
In the Eyes of the Beholder: Population Perspectives on Performance Priorities for Primary Care in Canada
First Nations Health Networks: A Collaborative System Approach to Health Transfer
Using Operations Research to Plan the British Columbia Registered Nurses' Workforce
Evaluation of the Executive Training for Research Application (EXTRA) Program: Design and Early Findings
Previous Out-of-Pocket Drug Expenditures and Patterns of Antidepressant Use among Workers Receiving Depression-Related Disability Benefits
What is Healthcare Policy / Politiques de Santé?

Healthcare policy research and translation. Peer reviewed. For health system managers, practitioners, politicians and their administrators, and educators and academics. Authors come from a broad range of disciplines including social sciences, humanities, ethics, law, management sciences, and knowledge translation. Edited by Dr. Brian Hutchison, McMaster University, Hamilton.
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The Effect of Evidence-Based Drug Coverage Policies on Pharmaceutical R&D: A Case Study from British Columbia
Steve Morgan and Colleen Cunningham

Background:   To manage public expenditures in the mid-1990s, British Columbia implemented evidence-based drug coverage policies, including "reference pricing." Industry lobbied against the province's policy, arguing that reference pricing harms patients and that it is inconsistent with f...

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