Showing posts with label healthcare policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthcare policy. Show all posts
Thursday, January 19, 2012
abstract: Variation and Consternation: Access to Unfunded Cancer Drugs in Canada
".... The majority of respondents felt all methods of accessing unfunded intravenous cancer drugs should be available (76% in their own center; 60% in private clinics) and used these methods to access these medications (81% in their own institution; 62% in private clinics)...."
Conclusion:
Access to effective but unfunded cancer drugs varies across Canada. Policymakers need to consider whether this is consistent with articulated values of the system and whether currently planned processes address these inconsistencies. Key stakeholders need to consider the merits of the different means of accessing these drugs to appropriately and fairly integrate access into publically funded health care systems like that of Canada and other systems like that of the United States, which could face similar limits in the future.
Friday, March 04, 2011
CHSPR - University of British Columbia: 2011 Health Policy Conference BOOMERANGST: Myths and Realities about health care for an aging population (Lewis/Berwick quote...)
Note: 1) includes influence of cancer/aging/demographics 2) referenced via Hsien Seow presentation: "Inbalance. Not by chance. (Don Berwick quote: every system is perfectly designed to produce exactly the results it gets. A systematic issue.) We have a system that provide PC only when patients are “dying” or at EOL. – actively dying." ......................................................................Day 1: February 22, 2011 |
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| 8:30 am -- Welcome from the co-chairs |
| Patricia Baird, University of British Columbia | Audio | Slides |
| 9:00 am -- Opening Plenary: Myths and Realities about demographics |
| Jay Olshansky, University of Illinois | Audio | Slides | |
| Alan Cassels, University of Victoria | Audio | Slides |
| 11:00 am -- Session I: Will aging bankrupt the health care system? |
| Michael Wolfson, University of Ottawa | Audio | Slides | |
| Stephen Duckett, University of Alberta | Audio | Slides |
| 12:00 pm -- Lunch Presentation | Audio | Slides |
| 1:15 pm -- Session II: Is it possible (or sensible) to differentiate health and social care? |
| John Sloan, University of British Columbia | Audio | Slides | |
| Jon Glasby, University of Birmingham | Audio | Slides | |
| Vasanthi Srinivasan, Ontario Health Systems Strategy Division | Audio | Slides |
| 2:45 pm -- Session III: Aging in (what) place? |
| Carole Estabrooks, Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation | Audio | Slides | |
| Tine Rostgaard, Danish National Institute of Social Research | Audio | Slides | |
| Neena Chappell, Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria | Audio | Slides |
Day 2: February 23, 2011 |
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| 8:30 am -- Session IV: Whose death is it anyway? |
| Hsien Seow, Cancer Care Ontario Research Chair | Audio | Slides | |
| Dr. Michael Dolan, Internal Medicine Physician | Audio | Slides | |
| Hon. Sharon Carstairs, P.C., Liberal Senate Forum | Audio |
| 10:30 am -- Session V: Is aging a disease? |
| Matthew Farrer, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics | Audio | Slides | |
| Ross Upshur, University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics | Audio | Slides |
| 12:00 pm -- Closing Plenary Speaker |
| Steven Lewis, Health Care Consultant, Saskatoon | Audio |
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Involving the public in healthcare policy: An update of the research evidence and proposed evaluation framework | RAND
Blogger's Note: worth reading if not, critically, somewhat old news
Thursday, December 23, 2010
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