This paper is of interest to analysts, policy makers and decision makers involved with descriptive clinical studies, clinical trials, programme evaluations, measuring population health, and planning assessments. It describes a recently developed system for measuring the overall health status and...

Policy challenges that involve the nature and distribution of labour-market experiences and research agendas related to the health consequences of these experiences have not evolved in tandem. Moreover, new policy challenges have not stimulated new research agendas. I developed a research...

Over the past several decades, researchers have developed a vast body of knowledge about the social determinants of health. Drawing on scholarship about the role of ideas in policymaking, I developed a conceptual framework to identify institutional innovations or policy changes in Canada and the...

Conduct disorder, or persistent antisocial behaviour in children and youth, is an important public mental health problem in Canada. There is much research evidence about causal risk factors, prevention and treatment, yet little of the research is incorporated into legislative, administrative or...

In 1997, the Canadian National Forum on Health recommended creation of a national pharmacare program, the key elements of which would include: (a) universal first-dollar coverage for medically necessary medications; (b) comprehensive information support tools for managers, clinicians, and...

Systematic variations in health and illness among social groups have persisted and, in some cases increased, in many countries in spite of improvements in the availability of, and access to, health care services. Health policy makers have responded by showing increasing interest in non-clinical...