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 KM, Black C. Access to data in health information systems. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2005 Aug;83(8):563. Read more
UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. As good as it gets? Strategies for improving chronic care management: Proceedings of the 14th annual health policy conference of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Aug 2005. Read more
Evans RG. Fellow travelers on a contested path: power, purpose, and the evolution of European health care systems. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2005 Feb-Apr;30(1-2):277-93. Read more
Black C, McGrail K, Fooks C, Baranek P, Maslove L. Data, data, everywhere: improving access to population health and health services research data in Canada: final report. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Ottawa (ON): Canadian Policy Research Networks; Apr 2005. Read more
Sutherland J, Schwarz CJ. Multi-list methods using incomplete lists in closed populations. Biometrics. 2005 Mar;61(1):134-40. Read more
Watson DE, Krueger H, Mooney D, Black C. Planning for renewal: mapping primary health care in British Columbia. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Jan 2005. Read more
Vujicic M, Evans RG. The impact of deficit reduction on the nursing labour market in Canada: unintended consequences of fiscal reform. Appl Health Econ Health Policy. 2005;4(2):99-110. Read more
UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. What a tangled web we weave: improving performance reporting and accountability in BC: proceedings of the 16th annual Health Policy Conference of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, November 7, 2003 - Vancouver, BC. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Oct 2004. Read more
Watson D, Broemeling AM, Reid R, Black C. A results-based logic model for primary health care: Laying an evidence-based foundation to guide performance measurement, monitoring and evaluation. Vancouver, BC: Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; 2004. Read more
Baird P, Williams-Jones B, editors. Genetic testing: help, hope or hype: proceedings of the 15th Annual Health Policy Conference of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, November 8, 2002. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; July 2004. Read more
McGrail KM, Schaub P, Black C. The British Columbia Health Atlas, Second Edition. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; May 2004. Read more
Barer ML, Evans RG, McGrail KM. Sustainability of health care in Canada. CMAJ. 2004 May 25;170(11):1647. Read more
Barer ML, Evans RG, McGrail KM, Green B, Hertzman C, Sheps SB. Beneath the calm surface: the changing face of physician-service use in British Columbia, 1985/86 versus 1996/97. CMAJ. 2004 Mar 2;170(5):803-7.Read more
Reid R, Evans R, Barer M, Sheps S, Kerluke K, McGrail K, Hertzman C, Pagliccia N. Conspicuous consumption: characterizing high users of physician services in one Canadian province. J Health Serv Res Policy. 2003 Oct;8(4):215-24. Read more
Lavis JN, Ross SE, Stoddart GL, Hohenadel JM, McLeod CB, Evans RG. Do Canadian civil servants care about the health of populations? Am J Public Health. 2003 Apr;93(4):658-63.Read more
Evans RG, Stoddart GL. Consuming research, producing policy? Am J Public Health. 2003 Mar;93(3):371-9.Read more
Barer ML, Morgan SG, Evans RG. Strangulation or rationalization? Costs and access in Canadian hospitals. Healthc Q. 2003;1(4):10-19.Read more
McKendry R, Reid RJ, McGrail KM, Kerluke KJ. Emergency rooms in British Columbia: a pilot project to validate current data and describe users. Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Dec 2002. Read more
Ostry A, Cardiff K, editors. Trading away health?: globalization and health policy: report from the 14th Annual Health Policy Conference of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, November 9, 2001. Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Oct 2002. Read more
Mintzes B, Barer ML, Kravitz RL, Kazanjian A, Bassett K, Lexchin J, Evans RG, Pan R, Marion SA. Influence of direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising and patients' requests on prescribing decisions: two site cross sectional survey. BMJ. 2002 Feb 2;324(7332):278-9. Read more