Publications authored by CHSPR faculty and staff from 2009 to the present are listed here. Older peer-reviewed publications are usually available from individual journals and can be searched for using PubMed. Older reports published by CHSPR (from 1973) are available from the UBC Library cIRcle database. If you cannot find a specific publication, please contact us.
Latest publications
McGrail K. Value for money: making Canadian health care stronger. Toronto (ON): Health Council of Canada; Feb 2009. Read more
Watson D, Peterson S, Black CD. In pursuit of quality: opportunities to improve patient experiences in British Columbian emergency departments. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Jan 2009. Read more
Law MR, Soumerai SB, Ross-Degnan D, Adams AS. A longitudinal study of medication nonadherence and hospitalization risk in schizophrenia. J Clin Psychiatry. 2008 Jan;69(1):47-53. Read more
Morgan S, Raymond C, Mooney D, Martin D. The Canadian Rx atlas, 2nd edition. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Dec 2008. Read more
Evans RG. Devil take the hindmost? Private health insurance and the rising costs of American 'exceptionalism'. In: Morone J, Robins L, Litman T, editors. Health Politics and Policy, 4th edition. New York: Delmar Publishers; 2008. Read more
Evans R, Hertzman C, Morgan S. Improving health outcomes in Canada. In: Leonard Jl, Ragan C, St-Hilaire F, editors. A Canadian priorities agenda: policy choices to improve economic and social well-being. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP); 2008. 291-352. Read more
Morgan S. Challenges and changes in pharmacare: could social insurance be the answer? In: Flood CM, Stabile M, Touhy C, editors. Exploring social insurance: can a dose of Europe cure Canadian health care finance? Montreal and Kingston: School of Policy Studies at Queen's U and McGill U; 2008. 199-220. Read more
Morgan S. “Les déterminants des dépenses en médicaments sur ordonnance” (“The determinants of prescription drug expenditure … and what to do about them.”). In: Béland F, Contandriopoulos A-P, Quesnel-Vallée A, Robert L, editors. Le privé dans la santé: un débat sans fin? Montreal: Presse de l'Université de Montréal; 2008. Read more
Morgan S. Prescription drug financing. In: Lu M, Jonsson E, editors. Financing health care: new ideas for a changing society. Weinheim (Germany): Wiley-Blackwell; 2008. 81-104. Read more
McGrail KM. Income-related inequities: Cross-sectional analyses of the use of medicare services in British Columbia in 1992 and 2002. Open Med. 2008;2(4):e91-8. Read more
Morgan S, Lopert R, Greyson D. Toward a definition of pharmaceutical innovation. Open Med. 2008;2(1):e4-7. Read more
Wong ST, Chen W, Bottorff JL, Hislop TG. Treatment decision making among Chinese women with DCIS. J Psychosoc Oncol. 2008;26(4):53-73. Read more
Evans RG. Reform, re-form, and reaction in the Canadian health care system. Health Law J Special Ed. 2008;16Spec no:265-86. Read more
Evans RG. Political arithmetick: physician productivity in concept and measurement: draft discussion paper. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Nov 2008. Read more
Evans RG. Separate and unequal: self-segregation in health insurance. Med Care. 2008 Oct;46(10):1012-4. Read more
Law MR, Majumdar SR, Soumerai SB. Effect of illicit direct to consumer advertising on use of etanercept, mometasone, and tegaserod in Canada:controlled longitudinal study. BMJ. 2008 Sep 2;337:a1055. Read more
Morgan S, McMahon M, Greyson D. "Balancing health and industrial policy objectives in the pharmaceutical sector: lessons from Australia. "Health Policy. 2008 Aug;87(2):133-45. Read more
Morgan S, Mochrie C. Pharmaceutical innovation: can health and economic goals be met? Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; July 2008. Read more
Soumerai SB, Zhang F, Ross-Degnan D, Ball DE, LeCates RF, Law MR, Hughes TE, Chapman D, Adams AS. Use of atypical antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia in Maine Medicaid following a policy change. Health Aff (Millwood). 2008 May-Jun;27(3):w185-95. Read more
Evans RG. Thomas McKeown, meet Fidel Castro: physicians, population health and the Cuban paradox. Healthc Policy. 2008 May;3(4):21-32. Read more