Almost Home: Reforming Home and Community Care in Ontario
Baranek, Patricia M.; Deber, Raisa B.; Williams, A. Paul
Almost Home is a rich and comprehensive study of the policy questions underlying the shift in medical care from hospitals to homes and communities, a change that is reshaping Canadian health care policy and politics. Using document analysis, and interviews with government officials and other key stakeholders in the policy community, the authors analyze the policy content and process of five different attempts to reform home and community care in Ontario between 1985 and 1996, as introduced by governments from three different political parties.
As this study demonstrates, the ongoing shift from the Medicare 'mainstream' of physician and hospital care ... Read more
The authors have made a significant contribution to research on policy development and change. Their rigorously analytical approach fills a major gap in book-length literature on long-term health care in Canada.
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