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This French presentation looks critically at the obstacles and opportunities for applying a population health approach to health improvement in the Quebec context. Special attention is paid to the risks and benefits associated with massive system change.

It was delivered in French at the 9th Journees annuelles de sante publique: “tendances et mouvances”, Centre des congres de Quebec, (Quebec City, Quebec), November 16, 2005.

Written for the Canadian Nursing Advisory Committee, 2002.

In this paper we will explore the structures within which these various players interact with each other and with patients, how their roles are perceived and how their work is performed. We will try to clarify some of these issues and provide some possible directions for the future.

This presentation was delivered: At Health Canada Policy Conferences.

An article in 2 parts with Henry Mintzberg. Draft, 2002.

This forum features two articles by Henry Mintzberg and Sholom Glouberman, commentaries by Tom D’Aunno and Peter Weil, and the authors’ response to the commentaries.

in What's Left?: The New Democratic Party in Renewal, eds. Z. D. Berlin & H. Aster (Stoddart, 2001).

The Canadian medicare system has been an important part of Canadian federalism for more than thirty years. For a long time Canadians were among the most satisfied people in the world with how they received health care. By the late 1980s, this began to change. Health care inflation and fears about the sustainability of current health care systems resulted in a process of retrenchment and restructuring. By 1992, growing public concern and dissatisfaction that led Michael Decter to o

This presentation was delivered:

• To Meeting Patient Needs: Achieving and Sustaining Practical Change sponsored by the Department of Human Services Victoria ( Melbourne, Australia) May 22, 2003.
• To the Women’s Health Council, Marriott Courtyard Hotel ( Toronto, Ontario) February 6, 2003.
• At the Healthy Connections Conference on September 19, 2001.
• Halton and Peel Regions ( Mississauga, Ontario) October 25, 2001.

This presentation was delivered at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care (Toronto, Ontario), February 8, 2005.

This presentation was delivered: To the Healthcare Summit, Freeport Health Centre (Kitchener, Ontario), November 12, 2003; at the Montreal Children’s Hospital (Montreal, Quebec) June 11, 2003; and For Nurse Leaders at the University of British Columbia, October 11, 2002.