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.


Watson DE, McGrail KM. More doctors or better care? Healthc Policy. 2009 Aug;5(1):26-31.Read more

Evans RG. Dismal science. Healthc Policy. 2009 May;4(4):19-29. Read more

Morgan S, Hanley G, Raymond C, Blais R. Breadth, Depth and Agreement among Provincial Formularies in Canada. Healthc Policy. 2009 May;4(4):e162-84. Read more

Evans R. Unhealthy markets: financial crisis, fiscal crisis ... health care crisis? J Health Serv Res Policy. 2009 Apr;14(2):68-9. Read more

Wong ST, Regan S. Patient perspectives on primary health care in rural communities: effects of geography on access, continuity and efficiency. Rural Remote Health. 2009 Jan-Mar;9(1):1142. Read more

Hanley GE, Morgan SG. Chronic catastrophes: exploring the concentration and sustained nature of ambulatory prescription drug expenditures in the population of British Columbia, Canada. Soc Sci Med. 2009 Mar;68(5):919-24. Read more

Evans RG. Old bones, new data: Emmett Hall, private insurance and the defeat of pharmacare. Healthc Policy. 2009 Feb;4(3):16-24. 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

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. 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

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

Law MR, Ross-Degnan D, Soumerai SB. Effect of prior authorization of second-generation antipsychotic agents on pharmacy utilization and reimbursements. Psychiatr Serv. 2008 May;59(5):540-6. Read more

Wong ST, Seago JA, Keane D, Grumbach K. College students' perceptions of their experiences: what do minority students think? J Nurs Educ. 2008 Apr;47(4):190-5. Read more

Morgan SG. The determinants of prescription drug expenditure … and what to do about them. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Apr 2008. Read more