This article is an interview with Doreen Hamilton, a public health nurse who was the Maternal and Child Health Consultant with the Toronto Public Health Department and sat as a member of the Joint Committee on High-Risk Pregnancy; The committee produced a report calling for the establishment of a regionalized perinatal network in Toronto along the lines of a programme that was operating in Cleveland, Ohio at the time. In this interview, she shares her critical experience of the health planning process.
Examines why it is important to increase meaningful involvement of people who use illegal drugs in the response to HIV and hepatitis C (HCV), and how this can be done.
Discusses the role of health-care systems and practitioners in responding to or preventing family violence, with emphasis on models in BC and some examples from other jurisdictions.
Presents tools needed to establish and improve abortion services, based on Ipas' global experience developing, implementing and monitoring abortion and postabortion care programs.
Presents, in Russian, tools needed to establish and improve abortion services, based on Ipas' global experience developing, implementing and monitoring abortion and postabortion care programs.
Presents, in Romanian, tools needed to establish and improve abortion services, based on Ipas' global experience developing, implementing and monitoring abortion and postabortion care programs.
Identifies successes and challenges in the relationships between regional coalitions of women's groups and regional health and social services boards in Quebec.
Includes bibliographical references.
Issued also in French under title: L'expérience de participation des groupes de femmes dans la planification régionale des services sociaux et de santé au Québec.
Examines one economic approach to priority setting which has gained momentum in practice over the last three decades: program budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA).
