Citizen participation has been included as part of health reform, often in the form of lay
health authorities. In Canada, these authorities are variously known as regional health …

Background: Program budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) is a framework for setting
priorities in health care, used internationally over the last 25 years in Britain, Australia and …

Introduction: The aims of this study were, within three Canadian health regions, to identify
existing resource management techniques, to elicit ways in which the current process of …

As resources in health care are scarce, health authorities and other health organizations are
charged with determining how best to spend limited resources. While a number of formal …

Debates about the form and nature of changes in the management of public systems have
for some time now been articulated under the theme of governance. All definitions of …

Background Resource allocation is a key challenge for healthcare decision makers. While
several case studies of organizational practice exist, there have been few large-scale cross …

Priority setting and resource allocation, or PSRA, are key functions of executive teams in
healthcare organizations. Yet decision-makers often base their choices on historical patterns …

Decision-makers are challenged to incorporate public input into priority-setting decisions.
We conducted a pan-Canadian survey of decision-makers in cancer control to investigate …

As resources in health care are scarce, managers and clinicians must make difficult choices
about what to fund and what not to fund. At the level of a regional health authority, limited …

Health Reform explores the challenges facing health care provision in the advanced
economies. The book exposes the limitations of market-led health reform and demonstrates …