NLCAHR team publishes a profile of the NL health system
We are pleased to announce the publication of new book about the Newfoundland and Labrador health system, released this month from the University of Toronto Press. Part of a series on Canada’s provincial and territorial health systems, this publication provides a critical analysis of how the healthcare system has been developed and managed in Canada’s youngest province.
Newfoundland and Labrador: A Health System Profile By Stephen Bornstein, John Abbott, Victor Maddalena, Aimee Letto, Melissa Sullivan and Pablo Navarro is now available for purchase as a paperback, e-book, or hardcover edition.
https://utorontopress.com/9781487525859/newfoundland-and-labrador/
In examining how Newfoundland and Labrador’s health services are organized, funded, and delivered, the authors look at the challenges in providing effective healthcare in a setting characterized by a large, decentralized territory; a small population, much of which is widely distributed among rural communities and small towns; and comparatively limited fiscal capacity and health human resources. Drawing on maps, figures, and collected data, the book documents the hesitant and limited ways in which the province has sought to deal with these challenges in the context of ongoing changes in demography, economics, and medical technology.
About the authors:
Stephen Bornstein is a professor in the Division of Community Health and Humanities and the Department of Political Science and the former director of the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research at Memorial University.
The Hon. John Abbott is the Minister of Children, Seniors, and Social Development with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. At the time this book was written, he was serving as the chief executive officer of the Newfoundland and Labrador division of the Canadian Mental Health Association. Mr. Abbott is the former deputy minister of Health and Community Services for Newfoundland and Labrador and is the former CEO of the Health Council of Canada.
Victor Maddalena is an associate professor in the Division of Community Health and Humanities in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Aimee Letto is a lawyer from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, whose work focuses on health law and public health policy.
Melissa Sullivan is an applied health services research consultant and Manager of Strategic Planning and Evaluation at the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Pablo Navarro is a research officer and project coordinator at the Newfoundland & Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Reviews: "Newfoundland and Labrador: A Health System Profile is comprehensive, well-written, and informative, with a distinct political science lens. The authors offer a descriptive and analytic assessment and avoid unwarranted judgment. It depicts a health system that is falling short of achieving health outcomes, that appears to have consistently resisted change, and one that is not meeting health goals achieved elsewhere." Tom Noseworthy, Professor Emeritus of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary
We congratulate the authors on this excellent publication.