Though there are many differences between health regions, there is some common ground.
Most regional health authorities have appointed boards and are granted global budgets by …

Regionalization has been put forward as the means by which provincial governments will be
able to cure many of the problems plaguing the health care system, yet very little research is …

Canada has been regionalization, but health care experts still aren't sure if the national shift
toward delivering medical services at the regional level has been successful. In the 1990s …

This commentary provides a practical perspective on the benefits of regionalization within
the context of the lead paper by Lewis and Kouri. Discussion of the best structure of health …

Lewis and Kouri provide an excellent review of the status of regionalization across Canada.
Their paper examines the potential benefits of regionalization and the factors increasing or …

Currently in Canada, there is no consensus concerning the efficacy of regionalization, a
reversal of the strong commitment in favour only a decade earlier. Instead, provincial …

Regionalization is arguably the most significant health reform in Canada since medicare.
Although a majority of provinces continue to have regionalized systems in Canada, the …

(Regionalization involves the transfer of power and authority from one group a provincial or
territorial government to a newly established or existing organization that will have …

The case of Nova Scotia well illustrates the complexities involved in implementing a strategy
of regionalization in health care. In 1996, under the leadership of Liberal Premier John …

Is regionalization better because it's cheaper? Or because it provides better outcomes? Or
simply because it's different from whatever went before? Those were some of the questions …