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First Cover -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Adults -- The Health Consequences of Unemployment -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Key conclusions from the research literature -- The Physical and Mental Health Consequences of Unemployment -- The Effects of Unemployment on Family Members -- Preliminary Results from a Canadian Community Survey -- Reemployment and the Recovery of Health -- Mediating and Moderating Factors -- Summary of Key Findings -- Sucess stories -- The Michigan JOBS Program -- Local Success Stories -- Job Clubs -- Policy Implications -- Reducing Unemployment -- Altering the Consequences of Unemployment -- Bibliography -- Promoting Literacy, Improving Health -- Table of contents -- Overview of literacy work -- Statistics -- Causes of Limited Literacy -- Personal Factors -- Social and Economic Factors -- The Role of Schools -- Impact of Limited Literacy -- Literacy Programming -- Program Delivery -- Programs in Educational Institutions -- Community-Based Programs -- Workplace Programs -- Effectiveness of Literacy Programs -- The Role of Communication Technologies in Literacy -- Key Program Groups -- Aboriginal Peoples -- Francophones -- Inmates -- Women -- Health care and literacy -- Impact of Limited Literacy on Health -- Health Care Responses to the Literacy Issue -- Social Policy Changes -- Increased Awareness of the Issue -- Collaboration between Health and Literacy Workers -- Increased Access to Health Information -- Sucess stories -- Beat the Street: Frontier College -- BEST - Basic Education for Skills Training: The Ontario Federation of Labour -- Intergenerational Literacy Program: Invergarry Learning Centre -- Something Special for Seniors: Medicine Hat College and One Voice -- Policy implications -- Health Care -- Education -- Social Equity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Seniors.

First Cover -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Children -- Enriching the Preschool Experiences of Children -- Table of Contents -- Key Conclusions from the Literature -- Socioeconomic Status and Child Development Outcomes -- Attachment and Relationships with Others -- The Neural System -- Cognitive and Language Competencies -- Social Context -- Transition to School: An Outcome and a Determinant -- Stories from the Front Lines -- Staying on Track -- Victoria Day Care Research Project -- Sesame Street -- Perry Preschool Project -- Canadian Community-Based Initiatives -- Policy Implications -- Family Support, Child Care and Early Childhood Education -- Universal and Specific Programs -- Measuring the Results -- Social and Economic Public Policies -- Summary of Policy Implications -- Bibliography -- Developing Resiliency in Childrenfrom Disadvantaged Populations -- Table of Contents -- Definition and Sources of Resiliency -- The Achievement of Resiliency in the Face of Disadvantage -- How Do the Risks Inherent in Disadvantage Undermine the Potential for Resiliency? -- Promoting Resiliency in the Face of Disadvantage: Success Stories -- Goal No. 1: From Conception through Delivery -- The Prevention of Preterm Delivery through Improved Prenatal Care in France -- The Montreal Diet Dispensary -- Goal No. 2. From Birth and for at Least Three Years -- Prenatal and Early Infancy Project (Olds) -- The Hawaii Healthy Start Program -- Staying on Track -- Goal No. 3. During the Preschool Years -- The Perry Preschool Project -- Goal No. 4. School-Based Programs -- The Ryerson Outreach/Ryerson Community Initiative -- Helping Children Adjust -- Cities in Schools -- Montreal Longitudinal-Experimental Study of Disruptive Kindergarten Boys -- Goal No. 5. Programs Designed to Mobilize Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods -- Better Beginnings, Better Futures.

First Cover -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Settings -- Toward Healthy Families -- Table of Contents -- Healthy Families and Health Determinants: Key Conclusions from the research Literature -- Definitional Conundrums and Old Reruns -- The Triple Helix Framework of Healthy Families -- Genetic Inheritance/Predisposition and Family -- Life Chances: Surviving and Thriving -- Social Resources and Healthy Families -- Social Support: The BIG Effect -- Access to Health through Family -- Chains, Effects, and Amplification -- Policies, Programs, Projects, and Natural Experiments: Lessons on What Works and What Does not -- Summary of Success Stories -- Families as Actors as Well as Subjects: Lessons from History -- Families and Children "at Promise" -- Family Matters and the Family Matters Program -- Brighter Futures and Running in Place -- Miracle at Duke and Water -- Beyond Health Promotion: Is Family and Community ActionEnough? -- Policy Implications-Principles to Guide Government Action -- Policy Implications -- Principles to Guide Government Action for Healthy Families -- Strategic Targets That Require Policy Action -- Bibliography -- Schools, Mental Health and Life Quality -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Objectives -- School Efects on Student Outcomes -- Definitions-Cognitive and Noncognitive Domains of Child Functioning -- Relationship between Cognitive and Noncognitive Outcomes -- The Importance of Prevention -- Research Design Isues -- Study Design -- Choice of Student Outcomes and School Variables -- Sample of Schools Studied -- School Effects Defined as Progress over Time -- School Effects Studies -- Overview -- Effective Schools Model -- Review of Exemplary Studies -- Key Conclusions -- Stories and Lessons Learned -- Criteria for Selection of Stories -- Story Descriptors -- Five Stories -- Lessons Learned -- Policy Implications.

First Cover -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Health Care Financing -- International Comparison of the Hospital Sector -- Table of Contents -- Description of the main methods of hospital payment -- Comparative analysis of acute care hospitals -- Internationally, have acute care hospitals experienced a decrease in their share of total health expenditures? -- Which components of the health sector have experienced an increase in their share of total health expenditures? -- Do the wealthier countries spend relatively more on acute care hospitals than other countries? -- Does the quantity of physical resources have an impact on the use of acute care hospitals? -- Summary and conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Controlling Health Expenditures: What Matters -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Change in expenditures in thirteen OECD countries -- Regressions -- Linear Regressions -- Logarithmic Regressions -- Analysis -- Change in per Capita Health Expenditures in Relation to the per Capita GDP -- Change in the Percentage of the GDP Allocated to Health in Relation to the per Capita GDP -- Explanation of the deviation in health expenditures from the average of the thirteen countries studied -- Factors Associated with Health Demand -- Population 65 Years and Older -- Mortality Rate/1,000 Inhabitants -- Macroorganizational Factors -- Percentage of Public Financing -- Number of Sources of Financing -- Degree of Centralization -- Microorganizational Factors -- Hospital Sector -- Ambulatory Sector -- Medical Sector -- Pharmaceutical Costs -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Managing Pharmaceutical Expenditures: How Canada Compares -- Table of Contents -- Methodology -- Cross-country Comparison of Per Capita Pharmaceutical Expenditures.

First Cover -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Evidence -- Factors That Influence Evidence-Based Decision Making -- Table of contents -- Section I - Project report -- WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING WITHIN THE CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM? -- Background -- Factors Influencing Evidence Adoption -- Nature of Evidence -- Nature of Evidence Adoption -- Methods -- Case Study Design -- Primary Case Selection -- Embedded Case Selection -- Multistage Key Informant Sampling -- Measures -- Findings Reported across Clinical and Administrative Realms -- Sample -- Range of Adoption of Evidence -- Quality of the Evidence -- Dissemination -- Environmental Factors -- Administrative -- Economic Conditions -- Political Factors -- Liability -- Consumer Influence -- Personal/Professional Factors -- Summary of Findings -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- Bibliography -- SECTION II - Primary CASE SYNOPSES -- Clinical Practice Case Synopses -- Routine Electronic Fetal Surveillance and Use of Cesarean Section -- Selection of Cases for Carotid Endarterectomy -- Selection of BPH Cases for Prostatectomy -- Implementation of the Ottawa Ankle Rules -- Pharmaceutical Case Synopses -- Promoting Appropriate Medication Use by Elderly Persons -- Appropriate Timing of Thrombolysis Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction -- Health Care Delivery Case Synopses -- Implementation of Second-Dose Measles Vaccine -- Implementation of Addiction Treatment Programs for Aboriginal People -- Implementation of Breast-Screening Programs -- Implementation of Acupuncture Programs -- Heath Care Management Case Synopses -- Hospital Closures -- Labour Substitution in Acute Care Nursing -- Bibliography -- Decision Support Tools in Health Care -- Table of contents -- Decision Support Tools in Health Care -- Guiding statement -- Introduction and definition.