Quebec's ice storm '98: "all cards wild, all rules broken" in Quebec's shell-shocked hospitals.

One step forward, one step back: Quebec's 2003–04 health and social services regionalization policy.

This article focuses on Quebec's most recent reform in the regionalization of health care to understand why the government chose to transform the regional boards into agencies. This case study used interviews and documentary analysis. Rooted in a political science perspective, the conceptual framework is inspired by the work of John Kingdon (1995) and draws on the four variables that influence ...

Social Values, Regulatory Tensions and Professional Practices with Underprivileged Populations: The Case of Quebec's Oral Healthcare System.

OBJECTIVE Dentists may experience frustration in their practice with people living on welfare, often perceiving them in a negative light. The difficulties encountered are detrimental to the patient-professional relationship and contribute to compromising access to care for this underprivileged population. In order to fully understand patient-professional interactions, we must consider the macro...

Quebec's approach to population health: an overview of policy content and organization.

While Canada's international leadership in the area of health promotion has been widely acknowledged in the past, Quebec's approach could be better known. Canada's second largest province has indeed developed a comprehensive public health infrastructure and adopted a population health approach which features an integrated set of legislative, organizational and programmatic policy instruments. T...

Scheduling Employees in Quebec's Liquor Stores with Integer Programming

Product listing agreements (PLAs): a new tool for reaching Quebec's pharmaceutical policy objectives?

Product listing agreements (PLAs) with pharmaceutical manufacturers are increasingly viewed as an innovative and useful tool in the effort to control drug expenditures. To date, Quebec is the only province that has been reluctant to enter into such agreements, arguing that their confidential nature may lead to a disparity in coverage between individuals covered by the public plan and those cove...