Journal Articles

Peer-reviewed journal articles 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.


Mills L, Wong ST, Bhagat R, Quail D, Triolet K, Weber T. Developing and sustaining leadership in public health nursing: findings from one British Columbia health authority. Nurs Leadersh (Tor Ont). 2012 Dec;25(4):63-75. Read more

Liva SJ, Hall WA, Klein MC, Wong ST. Factors associated with differences in Canadian perinatal nurses' attitudes toward birth practices. J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2012 Nov-Dec;41(6):761-73. Read more

McGrail K. Seniors will not bankrupt Canada's health system. Lancet. 2012 Nov 17;380(9855):1740. Read more

Evans RG. Putting some mustard into economic growth. Healthc Policy. 2012 Nov;8(2):14-22. Read more

Sutherland JM, Hellsten E, Yu K. Bundles: an opportunity to align incentives for continuing care in Canada? Health Policy. 2012 Oct;107(2-3):209-17. Read more

Martin-Misener R, Valaitis R, Wong ST, Macdonald M, Meagher-Stewart D, Kaczorowski J, O-Mara L, Savage R, Austin P; Strengthening Primary Health Care through Public Health and Primary Care Collaborations Team. A scoping literature review of collaboration between primary care and public health. Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2012 Oct;13(4):327-46. Read more

Browne AJ, Varcoe CM, Wong ST, Smye VL, Lavoie J, Littlejohn D, Tu D, Godwin O, Krause M, Khan KB, Fridkin A, Rodney P, O'Neil J, Lennox S. Closing the health equity gap: evidence-based strategies for primary health care organizations. Int J Equity Health. 2012 Oct 13;11:59. Read more

Wong ST, Lynam MJ, Khan KB, Scott L, Loock C. The social paediatrics initiative: a RICHER model of primary health care for at risk children and their families. BMC Pediatr. 2012 Oct 4;12:158. Read more

Morgan SG, Cunningham C, Law MR. Drug development: innovation or imitation deficit? BMJ. 2012 Sep 4;345:e5880. Read more

Puyat JH, Law MR, Wong ST, Sutherland JM, Morgan SG. The essential and potentially inappropriate use of antipsychotics across income groups: an analysis of linked administrative data. Can J Psychiatry. 2012 Aug;57(8):488-95. Read more

Crump RT, Llewellyn-Thomas HA. The importance of measuring strength-of-preference scores for health care options in preference-sensitive care. J Clin Epidemiol. 2012 Aug;65(8):887-96. Read more

Morgan SG, Daw JR. Canadian pharmacare: looking back, looking forward. Healthc Policy. 2012 Aug;8(1):14-23. Read more

Valaitis R, Martin-Misener R, Wong ST, MacDonald M, Meagher-Stewart D, Austin P, Kaczorowski J, O-Mara L, Savage R; Strengthening Primary Health Care through Public Health and Primary Care Collaboration Team. Methods, strategies and technologies used to conduct a scoping literature review of collaboration between primary care and public health. Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2012 Jul;13(3):219-36. Read more

MacEntee MI, Mariño R, Wong S, Kiyak A, Minichiello V, Chi I, Lo EC, Huancai L. Discussions on oral health care among elderly Chinese immigrants in Melbourne and Vancouver. Gerodontology. 2012 Jun;29(2):e822-32. Read more

Pérez-Cuevas R, Doubova SV, Suarez-Ortega M, Law M, Pande AH, Escobedo J, Espinosa-Larrañaga F, Ross-Degnan D, Wagner AK. Evaluating quality of care for patients with type 2 diabetes using electronic health record information in Mexico. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2012 Jun 6;12:50. Read more

Kaplan CP, Kim SE, Wong ST, Sawaya GF, Walsh JM, Pérez-Stable EJ. Willingness to use tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer among diverse women.Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2012 May;133(1):357-66. Read more

Greyson DL, Cunningham C, Morgan S. Information behaviour of Canadian pharmaceutical policy makers. Health Info Libr J. 2012 Mar;29(1):16-27. Read more

Law MR, Cheng L, Dhalla IA, Heard D, Morgan SG. The effect of cost on adherence to prescription medications in Canada. CMAJ. 2012 Feb 21;184(3):297-302. Read more

Evans RG. A Casualty in the Class War: Canada's Medicare. Healthc Policy. 2012 Feb;7(3):14-22. Read more

Law MR, Ma T, Fisher J, Sketris IS. Independent pharmacist prescribing in Canada. Can Pharm J (Ott). 2012 Jan;145(1):17-23.e1. Read more