This article seeks to review the Australian healthcare system and compare it to similar
systems in other countries to highlight the main issues and problems. A literature search for …

As health care has become of great importance to both individual citizens and to society, it
has become more important to understand medicine's relationship to the society it serves in …

Situational Analysis creates analytic maps of social processes and relationships identified
using grounded theory. Creator of the method, award-winning sociologist Adele E. Clarke …

Context: During the 1980s and 1990s, innovations in the organization, funding, and delivery
of primary health care in Canada were at the periphery of the system rather than at its core …

Research on roles and identities generally represents a micro perspective that does not
account for the reconstruction of professional role identity, owing to insufficient attention to …

Abstract Background In Canada, funding, administration, and delivery of health services—
including those targeting people who use drugs—are primarily the responsibility of the …

Although a growing body of literature has emerged to study medical tourism and address the
policy challenges it creates for national health care systems, the comparative scholarship on …

Given Canada's aging population, the demand for home care is expected to increase
significantly. To date, little is known about home care for older adults in Canada such as …

Background Access to health services is an important health determinant. New research in
health equity is required, especially amongst economic migrants from develo** countries …

Interest in public procurement's role in innovation has been reinforced by the directional turn
in innovation policy, which highlights the social purpose of innovation. Procurement-induced …