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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Canada’s fragmented healthcare system is one of the most expensive among the OECD countries, yet the quality of its performance is mediocre at best. Canada lacks a system-wide healthcare strategy that brings together many individual federal, provincial, and territorial strategies into a comprehensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
While Canadians are proud of their healthcare system, the reality is that it is fragmented and disorganized. Instead of a pan-Canadian system, it is a "system of systems" - thirteen provincial and territorial systems and a federal system. As a result, Canadian healthcare has not only become...
Rethinking Higher Education
Participation, Research, and Differentiation
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The basic structure of universities and colleges in Ontario - one focused primarily on expansion and greater access and put in place in the 1960s - is outdated. The system is now large enough, the eligible age group for entering post-secondary studies is shrinking, and participation rates are as high...
Intellectual Disabilities and Dual Diagnosis
An Interprofessional Clinical Guide for Healthcare Providers
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Contemporary policy in the care of persons with developmental disabilities is focused on "social inclusion" and equity. Healthcare professionals in the mainstream are tasked to ensure that their services are both available and responsive to caring for individuals. This clinical guide, written...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Measuring the Value of a Postsecondary Education is an insightful collection of essays that respond to current and pressing questions in the field of higher education: What do we mean by "quality" of education? What do courses and programs promise to deliver, and do they succeed? What do we know about...
The Dragon's Footprints
China in the Global Economic Governance System under the G20 Framework
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The Dragon’s Footprints: China in the Global Economic Governance System under the G20 Framework examines China’s participation in the G20; its efforts to increase its prestige in the international monetary system through the internationalization of its currency, the renminbi; its role in the multilateral...
Complexity's Embrace
The International Law Implications of Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
An unprecedented political, economic, social, and legal storm was unleashed by the United Kingdom’s June 2016 referendum to leave the European Union and the government’s response to the vote. After decades of strengthening European integration and independence, Brexit necessitates a deep understanding...
Mutual Security in the Asia-Pacific
Roles for Australia, Canada and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Myriad challenges to regional stability and security threaten East Asia’s burgeoning growth and prosperity. Mutual Security in the Asia-Pacific: Roles for Australia, Canada and South Korea addresses the economic and security challenges that loom in the region and the role that these three countries can play to ensure a stable, predictable political environment.
East Asia-Arctic Relations
Boundary, Security and International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Canada, Russia and the United States have expressed a renewed interest in the region, and East Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea and China are now increasingly fixated on prospects offered by the Arctic; however, Arctic and East Asian nations have not yet engaged in extensive discussions about...
The Fabric of Peace in Africa
Looking beyond the State
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Africa has experienced dozens of conflicts over a variety of issues during the past two decades. Responding to these conflicts requires concerted action to manage the crises – the violence, the political discord, and the humanitarian consequences of prolonged fighting. It is also necessary to address...
Assessing Quality in Postsecondary Education
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
For many years the benefits conferred by a higher education went undisputed. But students, employers, governments, and taxpayers are now demanding evidence of educational quality and value. At the same time, fiscally strapped governments are raising questions about how institutions are funded and...
A Canadian Healthcare Innovation Agenda
Policy, Governance, and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This collection is the result of a 2016 national leaders conference sponsored by Queen’s University to explore the prospects for a pan-Canadian healthcare innovation strategy. The conference themes were inspired by the 2015 report of the federally commissioned Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation,...
Canadian Public-Sector Financial Management
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Very little happens in government without money. The real impact of policy pronouncements is only understood when the resources to implement them are known, secured, and spent. Canadian Public-Sector Financial Management is for the student and practitioner of public administration, not the finance...
Media and Mass Atrocity
The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
When human beings are at their worst – as they most certainly were in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide – the world needs the institutions of journalism and the media to be at their best. Sadly, in Rwanda, the media fell short. Media and Mass Atrocity revisits the case of Rwanda, but also examines...