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Report
Framework for assessing, improving and enhancing health service planning
The report aims to contribute to policy learning across countries through developing and validating a framework for assessing, improving and enhancing healthcare planning and so presenting a potential tool for analysts and decision makers.
Dec 29, 2010
Journal Article
The Central Office in a Decentralized System
As the charter school movement has come to scale within the United States, it poses new questions about how to govern public education.
Dec 1, 2010
Journal Article
The Politics of Interprofessional Working and the Struggle for Professional Autonomy in Nursing
This study of interprofessional work relations in a Canadian mental health team examines how nursing deployed different forms of power in order to alter the mental health division of labour and control the work environment.
Jan 1, 2009
Journal Article
Convergence Without Diffusion? A Comparative Analysis of the Choice of Performance Indicators in Tax Administration and Social Security
This article aims to contribute to the debate around how organizations could learn from the experience of others in designing performance indicators and management systems.
Dec 1, 2008
Journal Article
Trends in Socioeconomic Disparities in Health Care Quality in Four Countries
Found socioeconomic disparities in health care quality and status for most of the indicators studied in four countries. These disparities in varied indicators underscore the importance of factors common to the systems or factors outside the system.
Feb 1, 2008
Report
Health and Medical Research in Canada: Observatory on Health Research Systems
Provides an overview of health and medical research in Canada. The report is part of a series of country-specific reports available from RAND Europe's Observatory on Health Research Systems.
Jan 28, 2008
Journal Article
Modelling Car Ownership in Urban Areas: A Case Study of Hamilton, Canada
This paper examines the influence of family structure, socio-economic characteristics and accessibility at the place of residence on the number of cars owned by a household.
Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article
Vehicle-type Choice and Neighbourhood Characteristics: An Empirical Study of Hamilton, Canada
The popularity of light-duty trucks has increased with important implications for air quality, traffic accidents and gasoline demand.
Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article
Psychosocial Variables Affect the Quality of Life of Men Diagnosed with Chronic Prostatitis/chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome
These data can be used to develop specific cognitive-behavioural programmes for men with CP/CPPS who are refractory to standard medical therapy.
Jan 1, 2008
Commentary
Afghanistan: Why Canada Should Stay
There is a growing movement in Canada to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, illustrated by such newspaper headlines as:
May 7, 2007
Journal Article
Elderly Mobility: Demographic and Spatial Analysis of Trip Making in the Hamilton CMA, Canada
The focus of this paper is on the topic of elderly trip generation and the development of models to help formalise some important relationships between trip-making behaviour and personal, household and contextual variables (such as location).
Jan 1, 2007
Journal Article
Household Demand and Willingness to Pay for Clean Vehicles
This paper examines the factors and incentives that are most likely to influence households' choice for cleaner vehicles in the metropolitan area of Hamilton, Canada.
Jan 1, 2007
Journal Article
An Internet-Based Stated Choices Household Survey for Alternative Fuelled Vehicles
This paper reports on the design and descriptive analysis of a stated choices survey on the demand for alternative fuelled vehicles in the Census Metropolitan Area of Hamilton, conducted through the Internet.
Jan 1, 2007
Journal Article
International Benchmark of Fraud and Error in Social Security Systems
This report, which was commissioned by the National Audit Office (NAO), presents the results of a benchmarking exercise investigating the issue of fraud and error in the social security systems of eight European and non-European countries.
Jul 20, 2006
Commentary
The Challenge for NATO's Chairman
Published commentary by RAND staff.
Mar 10, 2005
Journal Article
Carbon Monoxide Emissions from Passenger Vehicles: Predictive Mapping with an Application to Hamilton, Canada
Integrated urban models are designed to simulate land-use and transportation interactions and to allow predicts of traffic volume and vehicle emissions at the link level of the urban transport network.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project
Uses random-assignment experimental data from Canada's SSP to review impacts of this reform on the distributions of income, earnings, and transfers.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Chiropractic in North America: A Descriptive Analysis
This paper provides descriptive data on chiropractors, their practice, and their patients in North America in the past decade.
Jan 1, 2005
Report
Lessons from the North: Canada's Privatization of Military Ammunition Production
Provides an assessment of the applicability of lessons learned from the privatization of Canada's ammunition manufacturing to the U.S. ammunition industrial base.
Aug 15, 2004
Journal Article
Canada Aims to Close the USA's Electron Backdoor
The threat of crossborder cyberattacks into the USA is focusing attention on the electronic security of its northern neighbour.
Jan 1, 2002

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