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BOOMERANGST: Myths and Realities about health care for an aging population
23rd Annual Health Policy Conference
February 22-23, 2011 - Vancouver, BC
The Canadian population is aging. In 2011, the leading edge of the baby boom turns 65 – with the great bulge of that generation to follow. That simple fact has focused important attention on some key realities such as the likely major increase in Canada's dependency ratio. But it has also spawned a dizzying number of assertions, myths, half-truths and misunderstandings about the implications of aging for our health care system. These tend to deflect attention away from the very serious decisions that will need to be made over the coming decades.
Lost in Knowledge Translation? Innovations in Health Human Resources Policy
22nd Annual Health Policy Conference
March 30-31, 2010 - Vancouver, BC
CHSPR’s 2010 conference brought together an international line-up of speakers that shared their expertise and insights from across the full HHR policy spectrum including training, communications, organization, financing, regulation and policy.
Health Innovation for Patients and Populations: Science, Systems & Structures
21st Annual Health Policy Conference
February 24 & 25, 2009 - Vancouver, BC
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CHSPR’s 2009 conference brought together Canadian and international leaders in health services research to explore how science, systems and structures can be organized to develop and apply valued technical and social innovations for patients and populations.
Evidence Soup for the Policy Maker's Soul
20th Anniversary Health Policy Conference
March 4 & 5, 2008 - Vancouver, BC
CHSPR’s 2008 conference brought together Canadian and international leaders in health services research to look at how evidence intersects with policy-making, politics, the media agenda, public opinion, and the law.
Voices and Choices: Public Engagement in Health Care Policy
19th Annual Health Policy Conference
February 22, 2007 - Vancouver, BC
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CHSPR’s 2007 conference, Voices and Choices: Public Engagement in Health Care Policy, brought together researchers, policy makers, senior civil servants, and public representatives to examine the public’s role in health reform.
Toward a National Pharmaceuticals Strategy: Lessons from Abroad
18th Annual Health Policy Conference
February 9 & 10, 2006 - Vancouver, BC
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Pharmaceutical policy has become one of the most important and hotly contested domains of health system management--a rise in prominence largely due to financial realities. Costing over $24 billion, prescription drugs are second only to hospitals in terms of health care spending in Canada. CHSPR’s 18th health policy conference, Toward a National Pharmaceuticals Strategy, brought together leading international pharmaceutical policy experts to tackle some of the most pressing issues in global health care--including evidence and values in drug coverage decisions, drug safety and post-marketing surveillance, national formularies and expenditure management.
As Good as it Gets? Strategies for Improving Chronic Care Management
17th Annual Health Policy Conference
February 25, 2005 - Vancouver, BC
Featuring keynote speaker Dr Ed Wagner from the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, CHSPR's 2005 health policy conference focused on an increasingly important issue for today's health care planners: chronic care management. Dr Wagner is an international leader in improving health care for chronic conditions, and the principal architect of the chronic care model. His address will be followed by presentations and a panel discussion of how chronic care management is being implemented in BC, and the strategies, data and information required to improve our current models.
What a Tangled Web We Weave: Improving Performance Reporting and Accountability in BC
16th Annual Health Policy Conference
November 7, 2003 - Vancouver, BC
Accountability has gained increasing prominence in Canadian discussions about health system reform, and performance reporting is seen as a promising approach to inform, guide and evaluate system change in British Columbia. Other jurisdictions, notably the United States and the United Kingdom, have experience in this area and can offer important insights into the challenges of embarking on this agenda. This conference identified reasons behind our increased focus on accountability and will highlight opportunities, challenges and lessons learned from others who have moved further down this path.
Genetic Testing: Help, Hope or Hype
15th Annual Health Policy Conference
November 8, 2002 - Vancouver, BC
As genetic technologies make the detection of genotypes associated with gene-based diseases increasingly possible, widespread genetic testing is being advocated by some. The technological capacity to detect conditions, however, is outstripping our ability to assess appropriately whether this is effective, ethical and economically feasable. When are such tests indicated? Who should pay for them? To whom should they be offered? Who should have access to the results? What are the implications for equity of access to services? What are the effects on the healthcare system?
Trading Away Health: Globalization and Health Policy
14th Annual Health Policy Conference
November 9, 2001 - Vancouver, BC
Canadians are slowly becoming aware that the international agreements now being negotiated to govern trade in services could have massive and irreversible effects on their health care system. The overarching objective of "trade liberalization" motivating these agreements includes a quite specific and deliberate agenda of reducing the role of government, and extending that of private commercial activity in all sectors, including the provision of health care. The objective of this Conference was to provide participants with an overview of the key provisions of the various agreements NAFTA, GATS, FTAA currently in place or under negotiation. Speakers reviewed evidence to date on the impact of these agreements in areas related to health, and identified potential future risks to the Canadian health care system.
Threats to Quality: Illusion or Reality?
13th Annual Health Policy Conference
November 10, 2000 - Vancouver, BC
Almost weekly, articles appear in most Canadian newspapers alluding to the fact that Canada's health system is in an ever worsening crisis: long delays for surgery and hospitalization, perpetually overcrowded emergency rooms, overworked and increasingly scarce healthcare workforce, a lack of state-of-the-art health technologies, and uneven performance by health personnel. CHSPR's annual policy conference, Threats to Quality: Illusion or Reality? explored internal tensions at play driving the increased focus on quality of care, how mechanisms to improve quality have been employed, and the evidence that these responses are really improving quality.
Tales from the Other Drug Wars
12th Annual Health Policy Conference
November 26, 1999 - Vancouver, BC
Tales from the Other Drug Wars examined the role of research evidence in the newly emerging world of industry-health policy. The conference critically examined the notion that industry policy, which facilitates the free market use of research evidence, is becoming a much stronger determinant of health and health care than any health policy designed to balance that influence, taking other factors into account. The health sector faces unprecedented challenges deciding on what is appropriate in health care as more and more research is funded and designed to meet private industry needs.
Determinants of Health and Impacts on Health and Social Policy
11th Annual Health Policy Conference
November 6, 1998 - Vancouver, BC
Our understanding of the health impacts of income and social status, social support networks, education, employment and working conditions, the social and physical conditions in which we live, personal health practices and coping skills, healthy child development, culture, gender, biology, genetic endowment and health services, has grown considerably over the past decade. CHSPR's 1998 conference highlighted recent research advances in some of these areas -- particularly early childhood and workplace experiences -- and the challenges in balancing the various interests involved.
