Past Themes
Health Human Resources
Health Human Resources is a major issue for policy makers and managers. Attracting and retaining the right staff, and establishing adequate leadership roles within healthcare organizations is challenging many of the people running the Canadian healthcare system. This page will provide some of the answers people are looking for — research, resources, and other documents dealing with health human resources' challenges.
| Final Research Reports | |
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| Clinical and Organizational Innovation In Healthcare Organizations Jean-Louis Denis LOI-1997-160 |
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HTML | PDF - 202 KB PDF - 438 KB |
| Impact of the Shift to Ambulatory Care: Responsibilities and Supervision for Delivering Homecare Eric Gagnon LOI-1997-163 |
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HTML | PDF - 155 KB PDF - 301 KB |
| Research in Progress | |
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| Introduction of family medicine groups: the challenge of reorganizing practice and inter-professional co-operation
Beaulieu, Marie-Dominique / Denis, Jean-Louis |
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| The Impact of Hip and Knee Replacements and Other New Technologies on Physician Requirements for Orthopaedic Surgery
Chan, Ben / Buske, Lynda |
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| The team approach to hospice palliative care: Integration of formal and informal care
Anderson, Malcolm / Parent, Karen |
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| Commissioned Research |
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A much-anticipated document that boils down what we know about the benefits and drawbacks of different primary healthcare models is now available . The key implications that emerge from Choices for Change: The Path for Restructuring Primary Healthcare Services in Canada (PDF - 112 KB) are meant to provoke discussion among the people responsible for restructuring primary healthcare in Canada. |
| Mythbusters | |
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A series of essays giving the research evidence behind Canadian healthcare debates. | |
| Myth: Canadian Doctors are Leaving for the United States in Droves (2005) | PDF - 1.23 MB |
| Myth: Doctors do it for Money (2003) | PDF - 103 KB |
| Myth: Seeing a nurse practitioner instead of a doctor is second-class care (2002) | PDF - 71 KB |
