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Notes from the Editor

volume 117 | number 9 | September 2009 • Environmental Health Perspectives Fifteen years ago, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) stated in its Instructions to Authors that scientific integrity would be considered as part of the review process. Since that time, EHP’s policy has gradually evolved, especially with regard to competing financial interests. EHP, like many other journals, is conc...

Notes from the guest editor.

In 2009, four institutes of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Gender and Health; Health Services and Policy Research; Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction; and Population and Public Health) sponsored the Fourth Annual Canadian Research Congress on Mental Health and Addictions in the Workplace, in Toronto, Ontario. Hosted by the Work and Well-Being Research and Evaluation Program...

Notes from the Editor - in - Chief

A few years ago, G. Ross Baker and five colleagues published a series of case studies under the title High Performing Healthcare Systems: Delivering Quality by Design (2008). Their goal was to investigate a handful of international and Canadian healthcare systems in order to learn about the leadership strategies, organizational processes and investments that had earned those systems the adjecti...

Notes from the Editor-in-Chief.

Over the past 10 years, there has been a proliferation of healthcare performance reports both nationally and internationally. This trend seems to be driven by the need for accountability to governments as well as the general public. The need for greater evidence-based care and management of health systems has pushed us to produce and examine data in ways that were not expected in the past. The ...

Notes from the Editor - in - Chief

Jeremiah Hurley, Dianna Pasic, John Lavis, Anthony Culyer, Cameron Mustard and William Gnam, all of whom are affiliated with McMaster University or the University of Toronto, have combined their enormous wealth of knowledge and experience to write this lead article on Workers’ Compensation Boards (WCBs) in Canada. The authors document the evolution of WCBs as parallel payers in Canada, with a p...