Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Concepts for the Policy Analyst Raisa B. Deber and Valerie Rackow Chapter 2. Danger at the Gates? Screening for Tuberculosis in Immigrants and Refugees Michael Gardam, Marisa Creatore, Valerie Rackow, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 3. Making Canadians Healthier: Where Do We Start? Nurlan Algashov, Sherry Biscope, Ruby Bola, Kathryn Clarke, Mark Dobrow, Asmita Gillani, Irene Koo, Christine McGovern, Brandy McKenna, Michèle Parent-Bergeron, Shahzad Siddiqui, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 4. Dealing with Obesity Oria James, Katerina Gapanenko, Aneesa Gill, Shaheena Mukhi, Valerie Rackow, David Rudoler, and Raisa B.
Deber Chapter 5. Trouble on Tap: Water in Walkerton Brenda Gamble, Nancy Kraetschmer, Kenneth Cheak Kwan Lam, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 6. The Bite of Blood Safety: Screening Blood for West Nile Virus Kevin Glasgow, Aditi Khandelwal, Isra Levy, Frank Markel, Valerie Rackow, Matthew Seftel, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 7. Looking for Trouble: Developing and Implementing a National Network for Infectious Disease Surveillance in Canada David Kirsch, Rena Lin, Brian Schwartz, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 8. Needing Nurses: The Use of Temporary Employment Agencies Andrea Baumann, Mary Crea-Arsenio, Doreen Day, Maame De-Heer, Sarah Dimmock, Leah Levesque, Victoria Smith, Vera Ingrid Tarman, and Raisa B.
Deber Chapter 9. Midwifery: Special Delivery Karen Born, Esther Levy, Judy Litwack-Goldman, Amna Nishat, Han Yan, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 10. The Demanding Supply: Licensing International Doctors and Nurses in Ontario Mary Crea-Arsenio, Mohamad Alameddine, Andrea Baumann, Jennifer Blythe, Karen Born, Andrea A. Cortinois, Rinku Dhaliwal, Adam M. Dukelow, Christopher A. Klinger, Nibal Lubbad, Maria Mathews, Robert Paul, Melissa Rausch, Victoria Smith, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 11.
Primary Health Care in Ontario: Inching Towards Reform Monica Aggarwal, Munaza Chaudhry, Sarah Cutler, Victoria Ghandour, Meghan McMahon, Allie Peckham, Zahava Rosenberg-Yunger, David Rudoler, Rena Singer-Gordon, Romy Thomas, Debra Zelisko, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 12. At Any Price? Paying for New Cancer Drugs Christopher J. Longo, Laurie Bourne, Rachna Chaudhary, Zahava R.S. Rosenberg-Yunger, Bonita Rubin, Deborah Schwartz, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 13. What to Do with the Queue? Reducing Wait Times for Cancer Care John Blake, Daniel Bolland, Brenda Gamble, Daniel Dongjoo Lee, Rena Lin, Gunita Mitera, Natalie (Wajs) Rashkovan, Somayeh Sadat, Matthew Yao, and Raisa B.
Deber Chapter 14. Down the Tubes: Should In Vitro Fertilization Be Insured in Ontario Talar Boyajian, Sheryl Farrar, Erin Gilbart, Sunnie Hu, Lise Labrecque, Mina Mawani, Leonet Reid, Phyllis Tanaka, Judy Verbeeten, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 15. Prescription for Conflict: Drug Pricing and Coverage Laura Esmail, Chris Longo, Vidhi Thakkar, William Wynne, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 16. Ask Your Doctor: Direct to Consumer Advertising of Prescription Medicines Chris Bonnett, Christopher J. Longo, Yeesha Poon, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 17: Who Should Get It? Setting Priorities for the Allocation of Scarce Resources During Pandemics Zahava R.
S. Rosenberg-Yunger, Andrea L. Baumann, Cécile Bensimon, Maxwell J. Smith, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 18. Everybody Out of the Pool: Financing Health Expenditures through Medical Savings Accounts Kenneth Cheak Kwan Lam, Monish Ahluwalia, Mark Rovere, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 19. Long Term Care Reform in Ontario: "The Long Delivery" Andrea Baumann, Jane-Anne Campbell, Sabrina Campbell, Mary Crea-Arsenio, Christopher Longo, Frances Morton-Chang, David Oldenburger, Victoria Smith, Karen Spalding, Romy Joseph Thomas, Anne Wojtak, and Raisa B.
Deber Chapter 20. Depending on How You Cut It: Resource Allocation by a Provincial Home Care Agency Jane-Anne Campbell, Joanne Greco, Jeff Hohenkerk, Lindsay Jolivet, Joshua Kline, Frances Morton-Chang, Aravind Raj, Shannon L. Sibbald, Karen Spalding, Zakariya Thraya, Anne Wojtak, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 21. Shoot and Tell: Mandatory Gunshot Wound Reporting by Physicians Carrie-Lynn Haines, Julie Vernon (Holmes), Paul Miller, Valerie Rackow, and Raisa B. Deber Chapter 22. Dying to Die: The Evolution of MAID in Canada Christopher A. Klinger, Tatjana Aroukatos, Tony Discenza, Paul Miller, Morgan Neundorf, Zahava Rosenberg-Yunger: Joe Slack, Brian Van Dooren, and Raisa B.
Deber Chapter 23. Screen Tests: Genetic testing in the nursery, and the workplace Yvonne Bombard, Céline Cressman, Daniel Farris, Zahava R. S. Rosenberg-Yunger, and Raisa B. Deber About the Contributors.