Moving Beyond the Status Quo:
Alberta's "Working" Prescription for Health Care Reform
Evidence from the Alberta Advantage Surveys: 1995-2000
by Shainoor Virani, Mebs Kanji, and Barry Cooper
Contents
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Data
- The Problem with the Status Quo
- The Politics of Health Care
- Prevailing Attitudes Toward Change
- Perceptions of the State of Health Care
- Is the Health Care Cow Sacred No More?
- Conclusions
- References
- Appendix: Question Wording and Coding
- About the Authors
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