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
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
McGrail KM, Schaub P. The British Columbia Health Atlas, 1st edition. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Jan 2002. Read more
Evans RG, McGrail KM, Morgan SG, Barer ML, Hertzman C. Apocalypse no: population aging and the future of health care systems. Can J Aging 2001;20(suppl. 1):160-91. Read more
McGrail KM, Cardiff K, Helmer D, editors. Threats to quality: illusion or reality?: conference summary 13th Annual Health Policy Conference, November 10, 2000. Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Dec 2001. Read more
Barer ML, Evans RG. Health care in Canada: organization, financing and access. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; June 2001. Read more
Barer ML, McGrail KM, Cardiff K, Wood L, Green CJ, editors. Tales from the other drug wars: papers from the 12th Annual Health Policy Conference, held in Vancouver, B.C., Nov. 26, 1999. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; November 2000. Read more
McGrail K, Green B, Barer ML, Evans RG, Hertzman C, Normand C. Age, costs of acute and long-term care and proximity to death: evidence for 1987-88 and 1994-95 in British Columbia. Age Ageing. 2000 May;29(3):249-53. Read more