Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy

Author： Carson A. Scott;Nossal Kim Richard  

Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781553395034

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781553395027

Subject： R1 Preventive Medicine , Health

Keyword： 预防医学、卫生学

Language： ENG

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Description

Canada’s fragmented healthcare system is one of the most expensive among the OECD countries, yet the quality of its performance is mediocre at best. Canada lacks a system-wide healthcare strategy that brings together many individual federal, provincial, and territorial strategies into a comprehensive and coherent whole. Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy is a collection of ten policy research essays by leading Canadian and international scholars who address three important questions. First, if Canada had a unifying strategy, how would the country measure its success and monitor its performance? Second, who are the agents of change to bring about a Canadian system-wide strategy? Third, how can the jurisdictional realities of Canada’s political system be managed to bring about strategic reform? The final section in the volume explores ways to overcome the barriers and impediments that preoccupy Canadians’ concerns about healthcare. A companion volume to Toward a Healthcare Strategy for Canadians, the contributors to Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy turn to the critical importance of how necessary healthcare changes can be best implemented.

Chapter

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy

PART 1: MEASURING AND MONITORING A HEALTHCARE STRATEGY

1. From Performance Measurement to Performance Management

2. Targeting Improvements through Local Health Performance Reporting: The Australian Experience

3. International Experience with Health System Performance Assessment

PART 2: STAKEHOLDERS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE

4. Harnessing Patients’ Voices for Improving the Healthcare System

5. Patient Engagement for Healthcare System Change

6. Engaging Patients and the Public in Planning for Care and Driving Healthcare Reforms

7. The Role of the Private Sector in Canadian Healthcare: Accountability, Strategic Alliances, and Governance

8. Healthcare Professionals as Agents of Change

PART 3: MOVING HEALTHCARE REFORM FORWARD

9. Clearing the Way: Beyond the Roadblocks to Healthcare Reform

10. An Action Plan for Reforming Healthcare in Canada

Appendices

Appendix A: Summary of Recommendations

Appendix B: Policy Position Papers by Healthcare Stakeholders

Appendix C: Independent Review of Provinces’ Healthcare

Appendix D: Administrative Management Structure of Healthcare in the Provinces

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