Robert G. Evans
 | Faculty
Phone: 604-822-4969 |
A founding member of the Centre, Dr. Evans is a lifelong leader in academia and an internationally esteemed health economist. His groundbreaking comparative studies of health care systems and funding strategies have shaped policy in Canada and provided insight to governments and health agencies worldwide. A decorated academic, Professor Evans is the recipient of Canada’s highest honour for lifetime achievement, as an Officer of the Order of Canada. He also served as a member of the British Columbia Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs in 1990, and of the National Forum on Health, chaired by the prime minister of Canada, from 1994 to 1997. His canonical works, "Strained Mercy: The Economics of Canadian Health Care" and "Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not? The Determinants of Health of Populations" are considered classics in the field.
In addition to serving as an Officer of the Order of Canada, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Institute Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, where he was director of the Population Health Program from 1987 to 1997. He is also an honorary life member of the Canadian College of Health Services Executives and of the Canadian Health Economics Research Association, and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance (US). In 2001, he became the first Canadian (and the second non-American) to win the Baxter International Foundation Prize for Health Services Research.
As an University Killam Professor at UBC, Dr. Evans is a prolific author and an active professor, researcher and consultant with the UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research and the Department of Economics.
Dr. Evans received his undergraduate degree in political economy from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
Affiliations and Awards
- Officer, Order of Canada
- University Killam Professor, UBC
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
- Baxter International Foundation Prize for Health Services Research
- Professor Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize, UBC
- Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- National Health Research Scientist award, UBC
- Health Services Research Advancement Award, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, 2002
- Senior Investigator award, CIHR, 2001 to 2005
Publications
Old Bones, New Data: Emmett Hall, Private Insurance and the Defeat of Pharmacare Evans RG . Healthcare Policy [Commentary]. 2009;4(3):16-24.Political Arithmetick: Physician Productivity in Concept and Measurement. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; November 2008. [Working Paper]
Reform, Re-form, and Reaction in the Canadian Health Care System Evans RG . Health Law Journal Special Ed. 2008, 16:265-286.
Separate and Unequal: Self-Segregation in Health Insurance. Evans RG. Medical Care [Commentary]. October 2008;46(10):1012-14.
Devil Take the Hindmost? Private Health Insurance and the Rising Costs of American 'Exceptionalism' Evans RG. In: Morone J, Robins L, Litman T. Health Politics and Policy, 4th edition. New York: Delmar Publishers; 2008.
The World Is Not the Way They Tell You it Is. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; April 2008. [Presentation]
Richard III, Barer-Stoddart and the Daughter of Time. Evans RG, McGrail KM. Healthcare Policy [Commentary]. 2008;3(3):18-28.
Thomas McKeown, Meet Fidel Castro: Physicians, Population Health, and the Cuban Paradox Evans RG. Healthcare Policy Vol. 3, no. 4, 2008, pp. 21-32.
Reform, Re-form, and Reaction in the Canadian Health Care System Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; December 2007. [Working Paper]
Extravagant Americans, Healthier Canadians: The Bottom Line in North American Health Care. Evans RG. In: Thomas DM, editor. Canada and the United States: Differences that Count. Peterborough ON: Broadview Press; 2007.
Plastic Brains. Evans R. Healthcare Policy. 3(1) 2007: 24-30.
A Conclusion in Search for Arguments: Economists and the Quest for More Regressive Health Care Financing. Evans RG. In: Diamond P, Vartiainen H, editors. Proceedings of the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation 50th Anniversary Symposium on Incentives and Finance of the Health Care System, Helsinki, Finland, August 9–10, 2004. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press; 2007.
Economic Myths and Political Realities: The Inequality Agenda and the Sustainability of Medicare. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; July 2007. [Working Paper]
Mr. Harrington, Self-Rated Health and the Canadian Chicken. Evans RG. Healthcare Policy [Commentary]. 2007;2(4):24-33.
Green Leviathan? Thomas Hobbes, Joel Bakan and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Evans RG. Healthcare Policy [Commentary]. 2007;2(3):18-25.
Fat Zombies, Pleistocene Tastes, Autophilia and the 'Obesity Epidemic'. Evans RG. Healthcare Policy [Commentary]. 2006 November;2(2):18-26.
Income-Based Drug Coverage in British Columbia: Lessons for BC and the Rest of Canada. Morgan S, Evans RG, Hanley GE, Caetano PA, Black C. Healthcare Policy. 2006 November;2(2):115-127.
From World War to Class War: The Rebound of the Rich. Evans RG. Healthcare Policy [Commentary]. 2006 August;2(1): 14-24.
High Reliability Versus High Autonomy: Dryden, Murphy and Patient Safety. Evans RG, Cardiff K, Sheps S. Healthcare Policy [Commentary]. 2006 May;1(4):12-20.
The Blind Men, the Elephant and the CT Scanner. Evans RG. Healthcare Policy [Commentary]. 2006 March;1(3):12-18.
Kafka, New Orleans, the OARs and the KT Boundary. Evans RG. Healthcare Policy [Commentary]. 2006 January;1(2):14-20.
Healthier Societies: From Analysis to Action. Heymann J, Hertzman C, Barer ML, Evans RG (editors). New York: Oxford University Press; 2006 (417 p).
The Impact of Deficit Reduction on the Nursing Labour Market in Canada: Unintended Consequences of Fiscal Reform. Vujicic M, Evans RG. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 2005;4(2):99-110.
Economic Ideology or Economic Interests: Why is American Health Care so Different? Evans RG. Open Spaces. 2005;8(1):16-21.
Preserving Privilege, Promoting Profit: The Payoffs From Private Health Insurance. Evans RG. In: Flood CM, Roach K, Sossin L, editors. Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate Over Private Health Insurance in Canada. Toronto (ON): University of Toronto Press; 2005. p.347-68.
Breakthrough Drugs and Growth in Expenditure on Prescription Drugs in Canada. Morgan S, Bassett KL, Wright JM, Evans R, Barer ML, Caetano P, Black C. British Medical Journal. 2005 October 8;331:815-816, doi:10.1136/bmj.38582.703866.AE (Epub 2005 September 2).
Baneful Legacy: Medicare and Mr. Trudeau. Evans RG. Healthcare Policy [Commentary]. 2005 September;1(1):20-25.
Political Wolves and Economic Sheep: The Sustainability of Public Health Insurance in Canada. Evans RG, Vujicic M. In: Maynard A, editor. The Public-Private Mix for Health Care. Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing; 2005.
[Please note : An earlier draft of this paper was published as a CHSPR working paper with the same title in December 2003, and is available for download on this web site.]
Fellow Travelers on a Contested Path: Power, Purpose, and the Evolution of European Health Care Systems. Evans RG. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law [Commentary]. 2005 February-April;30(1-2):277-93.
The Cost of Preserving Privilege in American Health Care - What are you Paying for, Sam? Evans RG. The Fifteenth Annual Saward Lecture. Portland (OR): Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research; September 2004.
Comment on "Using Clinical Trials as a Condition of Coverage: Lessons From the National Emphysema Treatment Trial" Evans RG. Clinical Trials. 2004;1(1):117-119.
Beneath the Calm Surface: The Changing Face of Physician-Service Use in British Columbia, 1985/86 Versus 1996/97. Barer ML, Evans RG, McGrail KM, Green B, Hertzman C, Sheps SB. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2004 March 2;170(5):803-807.
Political Wolves and Economic Sheep: The Sustainability of Public Health Insurance in Canada. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; December 2003. [Working Paper] (33 pages)
Conspicuous Consumption: Characterizing High Users of Physician Services in One Canadian Province. Reid RJ, Evans RG, Barer ML, Sheps S, Kerluke K, McGrail K, Hertzman C, Pagliccia N. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. 2003 October;8(4):215-224.
Strangulation or Rationalization? Costs and Access in Canadian Hospitals. Barer ML, Morgan SG, Evans RG. Longwoods Review. 2003;1(4):10-19.
How Does Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Affect Prescribing? A Survey in Primary Care Environments With and Without Legal DTCA. Mintzes B, Barer ML, Kravitz RL, Bassett K, Lexchin J, Kazanjian A, Evans RG, Pan R, Marion SA. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2003 September 2;169(5):405-412.
The Doctor is Out: Physician Participation in the Rationed Access Day Work Stoppage in British Columbia, 1998/99. Reid RJ, Schneider D, Barer M, Hanvelt R, McGrail K, Pagliccia N, Evans RG. Longwoods Review. 2003;1(1):3-10.
Interpreting and Addressing Inequalities in Health: From Black to Acheson to Blair to? Evans RG. An updated and expanded version of the 7th Annual Lecture of the Office of Health Economics (OHE) delivered on 1 June 2000. London: Office of Health Economics; 2003.
Raising the Money: Options, Consequences and Objections For Financing Health Care in Canada. Evans RG. Paper prepared for the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada Discussion Paper Series, paper no. 27. Saskatoon (SK): Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada; October 2002. (57 pages).
[An edited version of this paper appears in: The Fiscal Sustainability of Health Care in Canada: The Romanow Papers, Volume 1, GP Marchildon, T McIntosh, and P-G Forest (eds.), Toronto (ON): University of Toronto Press, 2004, pp.139-196.]
Lever les fonds : options, conséquences et objectifs pour le financement des soins de santé au Canada. Les études de la Commission sur l'avenir des soins de santé au Canada, étude No. 27. octobre 2002 (64 pages).
An Assessment of the Health System Impacts of Direct-To-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Medicines. Vol. III Mintzes B, Barer ML, Bassett K, Kazanjian A, Evans RG. Patient Information on Medicines. Comparative Patient/Doctor Survey in Vancouver and Sacramento.
Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; August 2001. (65 pages)
Phantoms In The Snow: Canadians' Use Of Health Care Services In The United States. Katz SJ, Cardiff K, Pascali M, Barer ML, Evans RG. Health Affairs. 2002 May/June;21(3):19-31.
Financing Health Care: Taxation and the Alternatives. Evans RG. In: Mossialos E, Dixon A, Figueras J, Kutzin J, editors. Funding Health Care: Options for Europe. Philadelphia: Open University Press; 2002. Chp. 2, p. 31-58. [This paper is an abridged version of HPRU 00:15D.]
Download Figure 1 (not published).
An Assessment of the Health System Impacts of Direct-To-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Medicines. Vol. I Mintzes B, Barer ML, Kazanjian A, Bassett K, Evans RG, Morgan S. Executive Summary.
Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; February 2002. (11 pages)
Évaluation des effets, sur le système de santé, de la publicité des médicaments de prescription orientée directement vers le consommateur (PODC): Tome I: Résumé. février 2002. (13 pages)
Influence of DTC pharmaceutical advertising and patients' requests on prescribing decisions: two site cross sectional survey. Mintzes B, Barer ML, Kravitz RL, Kazanjian A, Bassett K, Lexchin J, Evans RG, Pan R, Marion SA. British Medical Journal. 2002;324:278-9.
Apocalypse No: Population Aging and the Future of Health Care Systems. Evans RG, McGrail KM, Morgan SG, Barer ML, Hertzman C. Canadian Journal on Aging. 2001;20(suppl. 1):160-191.
Health Care in Canada: Organization, Financing and Access. [Revised version] Barer ML, Evans RG. Paper prepared for the Canada-Japan Social Policy Research Project conference; 2001 June 22-23; Osaka, Japan.
Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; June 2001. (36 pages)
The Quick and the Dead: 'Managing' Inpatient Care in British Columbia Hospitals, 1969 to 1995/96. McGrail KM, Evans RG, Barer ML, Sheps SB, Hertzman C, Kazanjian A. Health Services Research. 2001 February;35(6):1319-1338. [Originally released as a discussion paper in 1998.]
Revitalizing Medicare: Shared Problems, Public Solutions. Rachlis M, Evans RG, Lewis P, Barer ML. A study prepared for the Tommy Douglas Research Institute. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; January 2001. (61 pages)
Buying Science, Selling Drugs. Morgan SG, Barer ML, Evans RG. Health Matters. Winter 2000/01;43:12-13.
Health For All or Wealth for Some: Conflicting Goals in Health Care Reform. Evans RG. In: Mills A, editor. Reforming Health Sectors. London: Kegan Paul International; 2000. p. 25-53. [Originally released as a discussion paper in October 1998.]
Health Economists Meet the Fourth Tempter: Drug Dependency and Scientific Discourse. Morgan S, Barer ML, Evans RG. Health Economics. 2000;9(8):659-667.
Financing Health Care: Taxation and the Alternatives. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; October 2000.
Canada: How the System Works. A Summary. Evans RG. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. October 2000;25(5):889-897.
Hospital downsizing and trends in health care use among elderly people in British Columbia. Sheps SB, Reid RJ, Barer ML, Krueger H, McGrail KM, Green B, Evans RG, Hertzman C. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2000 August 22;163(4):397-401.
Age, costs of acute and long-term care and proximity to death: evidence for 1987-88 and 1994-95 in British Columbia. McGrail K, Green B, Barer ML, Evans RG, Hertzman C, Normand C. Age and Ageing. 2000;29:249-253.
Two Systems in Restraint: Contrasting Experiences with Cost Control in the 1990s. Evans RG. In: Thomas DM, editor. Canada and the United States: Differences that Count, 2nd edition. Peterborough (ON): Broadview Press Ltd.; 2000. p. 21-51.
Private Highway, One-Way Street: The Deklein and Fall of Canadian Medicare? Evans RG, Barer ML, Lewis S, Rachlis M, Stoddart GL. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; March 2000.
The Effects of Rationed Access Days (RADs) on Physician Fee-for-Service Payments in B.C. Hanvelt RA, Reid RJ, Schneider D, Pagliccia N, McGrail K, Barer ML, Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; March 2000. (54 pages)
The Role of Private and Public Health Care Delivery in Alberta. Evans RG. Alberta Health Forum 2000 Keynote Address; 2000 February 5; Edmonton, AB. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; 2000.
Mortality Rates After Cataract Extraction. Meddings DR, Marion SA, Barer ML, Evans RG, Green B, Hertzman C, Kazanjian A, McGrail KM, Sheps SB. Epidemiology. 1999 May;10(3):288-293.
Financing and Delivering Health Care in Canada: Lots of Sound and Fury, but Little "Reform". Evans RG, Barer ML. Korean Review of Public Administration. 1998;3(1):25-49.
Health for All or Wealth for Some? Conflicting Goals in Health Care Reform. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; October 1998. [An edited version of this paper was subsequently published in: Mills A, editor. Reforming Health Sectors. London: Kegan Paul International; 2000. p. 25-53.]
Health Reform: What "Business" is it of Business? Evans RG. In: Drache D, Sullivan T (editors). Market Limits in Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure. London: Routledge; 1999. p. 25-47.
Toward a Healthier Economics (Reflections on Ken Bassett's Problem). Evans RG. In: Barer ML, Getzen TE, Stoddart GL, editors. Health, Health Care and Health Economics: Perspectives on Distribution. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons; August 1998. p. 465-500. [Selected proceedings from the inaugural meeting of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA), Vancouver BC, May 1996.]
Does health care support independence or threaten it: A population based, person specific analysis of patterns of use by seniors Evans RG, Barer ML, Hertzman C, Sheps SB, Kazanjian A. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; June 1998. [Final report to Health Canada Seniors Independence Research Program (SIRP). Ottawa: Health Canada. National Health Research and Development Program project no. 6610-2117-602.]
Healthy, Wealthy and Cunning? Profit and Loss from Health Care Reform. Evans RG. In: Nemetz PN, editor. The Vancouver Institute: An Experiment in Public Education. Vancouver (BC): JBA Press, UBC; 1998. p. 447-486.
New bottles, same old wine: Right and wrong on physician supply. Evans RG. Canadian Medical Association Journal [Editorial]. 1998 March 24;158(6):757-9.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Health Care Zombies: Discredited Ideas that Will Not Die. Barer ML, Evans RG, Hertzman C, Johri M. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; March 1998 (78 pages). [This paper was also released as HPI Discussion Paper #10 by the Health Policy Institute, The University of Texas-Houston, Health Science Center.]
The Eyes Have It: Cataract Surgery and Changing Patterns of Outpatient Surgery. Meddings DR, McGrail KM, Barer ML, Hertzman C, Sheps SB, Evans RG, Kazanjian A. Medical Care Research Review. 1997 September;54(3):286-300.
Adapting to Adversity, Protecting the Principles, Resisting Reactionary 'Reforms': Canada's Health Care System in the 1990s. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; August 1997.
Going for the Gold: The Redistributive Agenda behind Market-Based Health Care Reform. Evans RG. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 1997 April;22(2):427-65.
Health Care Reform: Who's Selling the Market, and Why. Evans RG. Journal of Public Health Medicine. 1997 March;19(1):45-49.
Socioeconomic Status, Mortality, and the Development of Cataract at a Young Age. Meddings DR, Hertzman C, Barer ML, Evans RG, Kazanjian A, McGrail K, Sheps SB. Social Science and Medicine. 1998 January 1;46(11):1451-57.
Sharing the Burden, Containing the Cost: Fundamental Conflicts in Health Care Finance. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; January 1996.
Marketing the Market, Regulating Regulators: Who Gains? Who Loses? What Hopes? What Scope? Evans RG. In: Health Care Reform: The Will to Change. OECD Health Policy Studies No. 8. Paris: OECD; 1996. pp. 95-114.
Mark Pauly on Welfare Economics: Normative Rabbits from Positive Hats. Culyer AJ, Evans RG. Journal of Health Economics. 1996 April;15(2):243-251.
User Fees for Health Care: Why a Bad Idea Keeps Coming Back (Or, What's Health Got to Do with It?). Evans RG, Barer ML, Stoddart GL. Canadian Journal on Aging. 1995;14(2):360-390.
The Effects of British Columbia's Physician Payment Initiatives: Making Sense of the Dollars. Evans RG, Pascali MV, Barer ML. Vancouver (BC): HPRU, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; March 1995.
Marketing the Market, Regulating Regulators: Who Gains? Who Loses? What Hopes? What Scope? Evans RG . Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; January 1995.
Health and Wealth. Evans RG. Daedalus, Journal of American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fall 1994;123(4):21-42.
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Cost Implications of Health Care Reform in the United States. Barer ML, Evans RG, Holt M, Morrison JI. Health Affairs. Fall 1994;13(4):88-99.
Health, Hierarchy and Hominids: Biological Correlates of the Socio-Economic Gradient in Health. Evans RG. In: AJ Culyer and A Wagstaff (editors). Reforming Health Care Systems. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham; 1996. pp. 35-46.
Avalanche or Glacier? Health Care and the Demographic Rhetoric. Barer ML, Evans RG, Hertzman C. Vancouver (BC): Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; 1995. Note: A revised version of this paper was published in the Canadian Journal on Aging. 1995;14(2):193-224.
Less is More: Contrasting Styles in Health Care in Canada and the United States, Differences that Count: 21-41. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): HPRU, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; 1994.
Who Are the Zombie Masters, and What Do They Want? Evans RG, Barer ML, Stoddart GL, Bhatia V. Vancouver (BC): HPRU, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; December 1993.
Charging Peter to Pay Paul: Accounting for the Financial Effects of User Charges. Evans RG, Barer ML, Stoddart GL. Vancouver (BC): HPRU, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; December 1993.
User Charges, Snares and Delusions: Another Look at the Literature. Stoddart GL, Barer ML, Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): HPRU, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; December 1993.
Why Not User Charges? The Real Issues. Stoddart GL, Barer ML, Evans RG, Bhatia V. Vancouver (BC): HPRU, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; December 1993.
It's Not the Money, It's the Principle: Why User Charges for Some Services, and Not Others. Evans RG, Barer ML, Stoddart GL, Bhatia V. Vancouver (BC): HPRU, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; December 1993.
The Remarkable Tenacity of User Charges. Barer ML, Bhatia V, Stoddart GL, Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): HPRU, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; December 1993.
User Charges in Health Care: A Bibliography. Bhatia V, Stoddart GL, Barer ML, Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): HPRU, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; December 1993.
User Fees for Health Care: Why a Bad Idea Keeps Coming Back. Evans RG, Barer ML, Stoddart GL. Toronto: CIAR Program in Population Health, August 1993.
The Canadian Health Care Financing and Delivery System: Its Experience and Lessons for Other Nations. Evans RG. Yale Law and Policy Review. 1992;10(2):362-96.
Health Care Reform: The Issue From Hell. Evans RG. Policy Options. 1993 Jul-Aug:35-41.
What Seems to be the Problem? The International Movement to Restructure Health Care Systems. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; November, 1992.
Perspective: Interpreting Canada: Models, Mind-Sets and Myths. Barer ML, Evans RG. Health Affairs. 1992 Spring;11(1):44-61.
The Canadian Health Care System: Where Are We; How Did We Get Here? Evans RG, Law MM. Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; October, 1991.
Reflections on the Revolution in Sweden. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; September, 1991.
The Meeting of the Twain: Managing Health Care Capital, Capacity and Costs in Canada. Barer ML, Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; June, 1991.
Accessible, Acceptable and Affordable: Financing Health Care in Canada. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; September, 1990.
Reflections on the Financing of Hospital Capital: A Canadian Perspective. Barer ML, Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; June, 1990.
The 20-Year Experiment: Accounting For, Explaining and Evaluating Health Care Cost Containment in Canada and the United States. Evans RG, Barer ML, Hertzman C. Annual Review of Public Health. 12:481-518.
Producing Health, Consuming Health Care. Evans RG, Stoddart GL. Social Science and Medicine. 31(12):1347-1363.
Tension, Compression and Shear: Directions, Stresses and Outcomes of Health Care Cost Control. Evans RG. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 1990 Spring;15(1):101-128.
Sapphires in the Mud? The Export Potential of American Health Care Financing. What Can Europeans Learn from Americans? Evans RG, Barer ML. Health Care Financing Review, Annual Supplement 1989.
Acute Care Hospital Utilization Under Canadian National Health Insurance: The British Columbia Experience from 1969 to 1988. Anderson GM, Pulcins IR, Barer ML, Evans RG, Hertzman C. Inquiry. 27:352-358.
The Long Goodbye: The Great Transformation of the British Columbia Hospital System. Evans RG, Barer ML, Hertzman C, Anderson GM, Pulcins IR, Lomas J. Health Services Research. 1989 October;24(4):435-459.
Trends in Use of Medical Services by the Elderly in British Columbia. Barer ML, Pulcins IR, Evans RG, Hertzman C, Lomas J, Anderson GM. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 1989 July 1;141(1):39-45.
The Dog in the NightTime: Medical Practice Variations and Health Policy. Evans RG. In T.F. Andersen and G. Mooney (eds). The Challenges of Medical Practice Variations. The McMillan Press Ltd, London, 117-152.
Life and Death, Money and Power: The Politics of Health Care Finance. Evans RG. In T.J. Litman and L.S. Robins (eds). Health Politics and Policy (2nd edition) Part 4 (15):287-301.
Controlling Health Expenditures: The Canadian Reality. Evans RG, Lomas J, Barer ML, Labelle RJ, Fooks C, Stoddart GL, Anderson GM, Feeny D, Gafni A, Torrance GW, Tholl WG. New England Journal of Medicine. 320(9):571-577.
The Canadian Health Care System: A King's Fund Interrogatory. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; March, 1989.
Flat on Your Back or Back to your Flat? Sources of Increased Hospital Services Utilization Among the Elderly in BC. Hertzman C, Pulcins IR, Barer ML, Evans RG, Anderson GM, Lomas J. Social Science and Medicine. 30(7):819-828.
Where Have All the Children Gone? Accounting for the Paediatric Hospital Implosion. Evans RG, Robinson GC, Barer ML. In RS Tonkin and JR Wright (eds). Redesigning Relationships in Child Health Care. BC Children's Hospital, 63-76.
Fee Controls as Cost Control: Tales From the Frozen North. Barer ML, Evans RG, Labelle RJ. The Milbank Quarterly. 66(1):1-64.
We'll Take Care of it For You: Health Care in the Canadian Community. Evans RG. Daedalus. 117(4):155-189.
Squaring the Circle: Reconciling Fee-for-Service with Global Expenditure Control. Evans RG. Vancouver (BC): Health Policy Research Unit, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; September, 1988.
Reading the Menu With Better Glasses: Aging and Health Policy Research. Evans RG. In SJ Lewis (ed). Aging and Health: Linking Research and Public Policy. Chelsea: Lewis Publishers Inc. pp. 145-167.
Strained Mercy: The Economics of Canadian Health Care. Evans RG. Toronto (ON): Butterworths; 1984.
