Healthcare reforms, inertia polarization and group influence

Damien Contandriopoulos, Astrid Brousselle, Catherine Larouche, Mylaine Breton, Michèle Rivard, Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, Jeannie Haggerty, Geneviève Champagne and Mélanie Perroux

Health Policy, 2018, vol. 122, issue 9, 1018-1027

Abstract: Healthcare systems performance is the focus of intense policy and media attention in most countries. Quebec (Canada) is no exception, where successive governments have struggled for decades with apparently intractable problems in care accessibility overall, poor performance, and rising costs. This article explores the underlying causes of the disconnection between the high salience of healthcare system dysfunctions in both media and policy debates and the lack of policy change likely to remedy those dysfunctions.

Keywords: Health policy; Politics; Medical unions; Social network analysis; Quebec (Canada) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2018.07.007

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