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Patents, Public-Private Partnerships or Prizes – How should we support pharmaceutical innovation?

Grootendorst, Paul - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

The question as to how society should support pharmaceutical (‘pharma’) innovation is both pertinent and timely: Pharma drugs are an integral component of modern health care and hold the promise to treat more effectively various debilitating health problems. The productivity of the pharma...

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Older Adults’ Awareness of Community Health and Support Services for Dementia Care

Ploeg, Jenny; Denton, Margaret; Tindale, Joseph; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2010

The article examines where older adults seek help in caring for a parent with dementia and the factors associated with their identification of community health and support services as sources of assistance. The authors conducted telephone interviews, using random digit dialing, of 1,152 adults...

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Where Would You Turn for Help? Older Adults’ Awareness of Community Support Services

Denton, Margaret; Ploeg, Jenny; Tindale, Joseph; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2010

Previous findings on older adults’ awareness of community support services (CSSs) have been inconsistent and marred by acquiescence or over-claiming bias. To address this issue, this study used a series of 12 vignettes to describe common situations faced by older adults for which CSSs might be...

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Where Would You Turn for Help? Older Adults’ Awareness of Community Health and Support Services for Dementia Care

Denton, Margaret; Ploeg, Jenny; Tindale, Joseph; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2010

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Older Adults’ Awareness of Community Health and Support Services for Dementia Care

Ploeg, Jenny; Denton, Margaret; Tindale, Joseph; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2010

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Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs

Alan, Sule; Crossley, Thomas F.; Grootendorst, Paul; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2002

Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number of available years and permitting provincial rather than regional identifiers. Nonparametric Engel curves are...

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Do Drug Plans Matter? Effects of Drug Plan Eligibility on Drug Use Among the Elderly, Social Assistance Recipients and the General Population

Grootendorst, Paul; Levine, Mitchell - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2002

The 1984 Canada Health Act does not require that the provinces subsidize prescription drugs. Many provinces do, however, provide categorical coverage to the elderly, social assistance recipients and others, although the generosity of coverage is highly variable. A system of parallel private...

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Where Would You Turn For Help? Older Adults’ Knowledge and Awareness of Community Support Services

Denton, Margaret; Ploeg, Jenny; Tindale, Joseph; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

Community support services (CSSs) enable persons coping with health or social problems to maintain the highest possible level of social functioning and quality of life. Access to these services is challenging because of the multiplicity of small agencies providing these services and the lack of...

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Effects of 'Authorized-Generics' on Canadian Drug Prices

Grootendorst, Paul - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

generic competitors should lower prices. On the other hand, the threat of AG entry into a therapeutic market might deter entry … of AG entry into a market might deter entry by IGs. IG executives, however, state that the threat of AG entry has … decreased their incentive to challenge ‘marginal’ drug markets. In particular the threat of AG entry has increased from $5m to …

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Survey Results of the New Health Care Worker Study: Implications of Changing Employment Patterns

Zeytinoglu, Isik Urla; Denton, Margaret; Davies, Sharon; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2005

This report examines the effects of contemporary employment arrangements on the quality of nursing work life, and the implications of these employment arrangements for individual nurses, the hospitals, and also for the organization. First we look at nurse work status (full-time, part-time or...

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