Publications
The opinions expressed in the following publications are those of the author and contributors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of clients. All publications posted here have been publicly released by our clients or have been written by Information Partnership consultants for release to the public.
School-based Feeding
Programs: A good choice for children? (2000)
Commissioned by
Childhood and Youth Division Population & Public Health Branch Health Canada
this paper offers an
analytical assessment of school food programs as a sound policy response
to food insecurity. The paper discusses the findings from interviews with
key informants and from a review of relevant research literature.
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Socioeconomic
Status and Health Status: A study of males in the Canada Health Survey (1988)
This is revised version of a paper presented to the Meetings of the
Canadian Sociological & Anthropological Association. This
study presents an analysis of the relationship between socioeconmic
status (SES) and health status. download
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Child
and Family Poverty in Canada
(1997)
A chapter contributed to Child and Family Policies: Struggles,
Strategies, and Options. download >>
Conjoint Analyses:
Not just for market research (under
revision)
Understanding peoples opinions, attitudes and behaviors is big business in
the private sector. This paper looks at how one commonly used market
research tool can be used for policy, planning and communications in the
public sector. download >>
Ecological analysis
revisited (under
revision)
The ecological inference problem has been among the longest standing,
hitherto unsolved problems in quantitative social science. Ecological inference is the process of using aggregate data to infer
discrete individual-level relationships of interest when individual-level
data are not available or too costly to collect. Ecological
inferences are required when individual-level surveys are unavailable and
can be of major significance in public policy and other academic
disciplines, ranging from epidemiology to marketing. download >>
Quality
Improvement in Health Care: The tyranny of Taylorism (under
revision)
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This paper argues that
what is needed in the QI movement is a more holistic approach to
understanding the patient's experience. The typical fragmented approach
taken to patient satisfaction research is more a reflection of traditional
functional boundaries in the health care industry that undermines a truly
patient-centered health care perspective. download >>
Resource Page: Contextualizing the Quality Improvement Movement
