Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy

by A. Scott Carson, Kim Richard Nossal (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781553395041
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	03/16/2017
Series:	Queen's Policy Studies Series , #190
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

A. Scott Carson is Stauffer-Dunning Chair of Policy Studies and executive director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University.

Kim Richard Nossal is a professor in the Department of Political Studies and the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements v

Contributors vii

List of Abbreviations xiii

Introduction: Managing a Canadian Healthcare Strategy A. Scott Carson 1

Part 1 Measuring and Monitoring a Healthcare Strategy

1 From Performance Measurement to Performance Management Jeremy Veillard Keith Denny Brenda Tipper Niek Klazinga 19

2 Targeting Improvements through Local Health Performance Reporting: The Australian Experience Adam Cresswell Diane Watson 53

3 International Experience with Health System Performance Assessment Peter C. Smith 81

Part 2 Stakeholders as Agents of Change

4 Harnessing Patients' Voices for Improving the Healthcare System Sabrina T. Wong Julia M. Langion 103

5 Patient Engagement for Healthcare System Change Monica C. LaBarge Jay M. Hundelman Alex Mitchell 125

6 Engaging Patients and the Public in Planning for Care and Driving Healthcare Reforms Réjean Hébert 143

7 The Role of the Private Sector in Canadian Healthcare: Accountability, Strategic Alliances, and Governance A. Scott Carson 155

8 Healthcare. Professionals as Agents of Change Christopher S. Simpson Karima A. Velji Lisa Ashley Owen Adams 183

Part 3 Moving Healthcare Reform Forward

9 Clearing the Way: Beyond the Roadblocks to Healthcare Reform Neale Smith Harvey Lazar 205

10 An Action Plan for Reforming Healthcare in Canada Don Drummond Talicha Colder 235

Appendices 263