Paradigm Freeze: Why It Is So Hard to Reform Health Care in Canada 9781553393399
Thirty case studies of health care reform across the country.
139 3 2MB
English Pages [417] Year 2013
Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Foreword
Preface
Glossary
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C
D
E
F
G
I
L
M
N
P
R
S
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Why Is It So Hard to Reform Health-Care Policy in Canada?
Chapter 2 Studying Health-Care Reforms
Chapter 3 Health Reform in Alberta: Fiscal Crisis, Political Leadership, and Institutional Change within a Single-Party Democratic State
Chapter 4 Saskatchewan’s Health-Care Policy Reform in the Romanow Era: From Restraint to Restructuring
Chapter 5 Health-Care Reform in Ontario: More Tortoise Than Hare?
Chapter 6 Quebec Reforms from Rochon to Couillard: The Long and Winding Road
Chapter 7 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Difficulty of Reforming Health Care in Newfoundland and Labrador
Chapter 8 Canadian Health-Care Reform: What Kind? How Much? Why?
Chapter 9 Patterns in the Factors That Explain Health-Care Policy Reform
Chapter 10 Verifying the Reliability of Research Results
Chapter 11 Health-Care Reform: Where Things Stand
Chapter 12 Prospects for Health-Care Policy Reform
Annex 1 Analyzing the Nature and Extent of Health-Care Policy Reforms, 1990–2003
Annex 2 Independent Variables Referred to in 30 Case Studies That Best Help to Explain Nature and Extent of Reforms
Annex 3 Some Observations on the Historical Development of Medicare
References
Contributors
