Selected Presentations:

• Chiu T, Colantonio A, Keightley M, Bellavance A. Family Caregivers' Needs of Internet-based Services: A Survey of Caregivers of Brain Injury Survivors in Ontario. MedNet: 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine. Oct 13-20, Toronto, Ontario.

• Daly, T.J. (2004, June). Local Responses to State Retrenchment: Nonprofit Organizations in the Waterloo & Wellington Dufferin Home and Social Care Sector. Paper presented to the Canadian Political Science Association Meeting, Winnipeg Manitoba.

• Hollander, M. & Chappell, N. (2001). Overview of the National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectivenss of Home Care. Vancouver: Presented at the 17th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology.

• Williams, A.P., Spalding, K., Deber, R. & McKeever, P. (2003, June). The Changing Landscape of Pediatric Home and Community Care: Implications for Children, Families and Providers in Ontario. Preliminary Provincial Findings, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

Selected Publications:

• Alameddine, M., Laporte, A., Baumann, A. O'Brien-Pallas, L., Mildon, B., & Deber, R. (2006). Stickiness and inflow as proxy measures of the relative attractiveness of various sub-sectors of employment. Social Science and Medicine 63(9): 2310-2319.
  The definitive version can be found at Social Sciences and Medicine, http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/315/description#description

• Alameddine, M., Laporte, A., Baumann, A. O'Brien-Pallas, L., Croxford, R., Mildon, B., Wang, S., Milburn, B., & Deber, R. (2006). Where are nurses working?: Employment patterns by sub-sector in Ontario, Canada. Healthcare Policy 3(1): 65-86. The definitive version can be found at Healthcare Policy, http://www.longwoods.com/home.php?cat=247

• Alcock, D., Gallagher, E., Diem, E., Angus, D., & Medves, J. (2000). Substudy 6: Decision-making: Home care or long term care facility. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Armstrong, W. & Deber, R. (2006). Missing pieces of the shift to home and community care, M-THAC Working paper.

• Armstrong, W. & Deber, R. (2006). Reading the fine print: Focus on long-term care insurance, M-THAC Working Paper.

• Arundel, C., & Glouberman, S. (2001). Substudy 15: An analysis of blockage to the effective transfer of clients from acute care to home care. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Baumann, Andrea, Jane Underwood, Jennifer Blythe, Donna Ciliska, Anne Ehrlich, Noori Akhtar-Danesh, Mohamad Alameddine, Audrey Laporte, Raisa Deber, Alina Dragan. Better Data: Better Performance Community Health Nursing in Ontario. Health Human Resources Series Number 7, Nov 2006.

• Baranek, Pat; Deber, Raisa; Williams, A Paul (1999): Policy trade-offs in "home care": the Ontario example. Can. Pub. Adm. 42(1, Spring), 69-92. The definitive version can be found at The Canadian Public Administration Journal, http://www.ipac.ca/pubs/cpa_journal/index.html.

• Berta, W.,Laporte, A., and V. Valdmanis, V.  "Observations on Institutional Long-Term Care in Ontario: 1996-2001".  Canadian Journal on Aging 24(1): 71-84, 2005. The definitive version can be found at the Canadian Journal on Aging, http://www.cagacg.ca/publications/510_e.php.

• Berta, W., Laporte, A., Zarnett, D., Valdmanis, V., Anderson, G.  "A pan-Canadian Perspective on Institutional Long-Term Care". Health Policy 79: 175-194, 2006. The definitive version can be found at Health Policy, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/healthpol

• Berta, W., Teare, G., Gilbart, E., Ginsburg, L., Lemieux-Charles, L., Davis, D. and Rappolt, S.  "The Contingencies of Organizational Learning in Long-Term Care: Factors that Affect Innovation Adoption".  Health Care Management Review, 30(4): 1-11, 2005. The definitive version can be found at Healthcare Management Review, http://www.hcmrjournal.com

• Brimacombe,Glenn G (2002): Every Number Tells A Story: A Review of Public and Private Health Expenditures and Revenues in Canada, 1980-2000. Ottawa: The Conference Board of Canada, January.

• Brimacombe,Glenn G; Antunes,Pedro; McIntyre,Jane (2001): The Future Cost of Health Care in Canada - 2000 to 2020: Affordability and Sustainability. Ottawa: Conference Board of Canada, May.

• CIHI. Canada's Health Care Providers 2005 Chartbook.

• CIHI. Canada's Health Care Providers.

• CIHI. Measuring the Retention of Registered Nurses in Canada: A Study of 20002004 Registration Data.June 2006

• Best Medicines Coalition, Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Nurses Association, Canadian Pharmacists Association and Canadian Healthcare Association. Framework for a Canadian Pharmaceutical Strategy: Statement of the Coalition for a Canadian Pharmaceutical Strategy. July 2006

• Canadian Healthcare Association. Human Resources In The Canadian Health System: Issues And Recommendations. Presented To The House Of Commons Standing Committee On Human Resources, Social Development And The Status Of Persons With Disabilities, September 2006

• Final Report of the Nursing Sector Study: Building the Future: An integrated strategy for nursing human resources in Canada PHASE II FINAL REPORT, 2006.

• Canadian Healthcare Association. A Strong Publicly-Funded Health System: Keeping Canadians Healthy And Securing Our Place In A Competitive World. Brief Submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, October 2006.

• CIHI. Workforce Trends of Licensed Practical Nurses in Canada, 2005

• CIHI. Workforce Trends of Registered Nurses in Canada, 2005

• CMA. Looking at the Future of Health, Health Care, and Medicine, 2000

• CMA. Specialty Care in Canada: Issue Identification and Policy Challenges. Ottawa, 2001.

• CMA. Professionalism in Canada. Ottawa, 2001.

• CMA. In Search of Sustainability. Ottawa, 2001

• Clarke, P. & Colantonio, A. (2005). Wheelchair use among community-dwelling older adults: Prevalence and risk factors in a national sample. Canadian Journal on Aging 24(2): 191-198. The definitive version can be found at the Canadian Journal on Aging, http://www.cagacg.ca/publications/510_e.php

• Conrad P, Deber RB, Williams AP, Nestman L.Win, Lose, or Draw? The Financial Implications of Regional Models For Home Care. Presentation to the Canadian Home Care Conference, Vancouver, November 21, 2002.

• Conrad P, Deber RB, Williams AP, Nestman L. Do regionalization models matter? Home care resource allocation in the Maritime provinces. Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Health Economics Research Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2002.

• Coyte, P. C., Jamieson, E. G., McGeer, A., Milkovich, N., Morris, A., Ovens, H., et al. (2001). Substudy 11: An economic evaluation of hospital-based and home-based intravenous antibiotic therapy for individuals with cellulitis. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Coyte PC, Laporte A, Baranek PM, Croson WS: Forecasting Facility and In-home Long-Term Care for the Elderly in Ontario: The Impact of Improving Health and Changing Practices. Report prepared under grant 02709 from the Ministry of Health and Long- Term Care in Ontario to the University of Toronto, June 2002.

• De Coster, Carolyn, Deber, Raisa, Roos, Noralou, and Forget, Evelyn L. When evidence meets rhetoric: the case of MSAs. CentrePiece, 2002; 12: 1-2

• Deber,Raisa (2002): Delivering health care services: Public, not-for-profit, or private? Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada. Discussion paper No.17

• Deber,Raisa (2000): Getting what we pay for: myths and realities about financing Canada's health care system. Background paper prepared for the Dialogue on Health Reform: Sustaining Confidence in Canada's Health Care System.

• Deber, R., Gamble, B., Berger, E. and Williams, A.P. (2002). "What's in" "What's out": Stakeholders' views about the boundaries of Medicare: Report on the results for question 1, 13 November.

• Deber, R., Gamble, B., Berger, E. and Williams, A.P. (2002). "What's in" "What's out": Stakeholders' views about the boundaries of Medicare: Executive summary on the results for question 1, November.

• Deber, R. and Gamble, B. "What's in" "What's out": Stakeholders' views about the boundaries of Medicare, Longwoods Review 2004; 2(3):1-9.The definitive version can be found at Longwoods Review, http://www.longwoods.com/home.php?cat=253.

• Deber, R., Forget, E., & Roos, L. Medical savings accounts in a universal system: wishful thinking meets evidence. Health Policy, 70(1):49-66, 2004. The definitive version can be found at Health Policy, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/healthpol
  

• Deber, Raisa B., Forget, Evelyn L., Roos, Leslie L. MSAs: Even Less Than Meets The Eye. Manitoba Centre for Health Policy Technical Report 28-Sept-02. Downloaded from http://www.umanitoba.ca/centres/mchp/hot_topic/msa/MSA_less_meets_eye_october_1_2002.prn.pdf, last accessed 28 February 2007.

• Deber, RB,, Kraetschmer, N, Dick P, Jennett P "Policy Implications for Geography and Scope of Services for Telehealth. Final report. Ottawa: Health Canada, Knowledge Development and Exchange (KDE)Applied Research Initiative, December 2003. Available for download from: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hcs-sss/pubs/kdec/on_geograph/index_e.html, last accessed 27 February 2007.

• Devitt, R., Colantonio, A., Dawson, D., Teare, G., Ratcliff, G., Chase, S. Prediction of long-term occupational performance outcomes for adults after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.Disability and Rehabilitation. 28(9): 547-559

• Evans RG. Political wolves and economic sheep: the sustainability of public health insurance in Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Centre for Health Services and Policy Research Working Paper; 2003:03-16W. Available online: http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/files/publications/2003/chspr03-16W.pdf, last accessed March 5, 2007.

• Fassbender, K. (2001). Substudy 3: Cost implications of informal supports. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Forget, E., Deber, R. B., Roos, L. L., & Walld, R. Canadian Health Reform: A Gender Analysis. Feminist Economics. 11(1): 123-141, 2005. The definitive version can be found at Feminist Economics, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/13545701.html

• Forget EL, Deber RB, Roos LL, "Medical Savings Accounts: Will they reduce costs?, CMAJ, 167(2). July 23, 2002. The definitive version can be found at Canadian Medical Association Journal, http://www.cmaj.ca/

• Franko, J. M. (2001). Substudy 14: Evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of the Quick Response Program of Saskatoon District Health. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Gordon M, Waines B, Englehart J, Montgomery S, Devitt R, Holyoke P, Cott C, Landry M. (2007)The Consequences of Delisting Publicly-Funded, Community-Based Physical Therapy Services in Ontario: A Health Policy Analysis. Physiotherapy Canada. 59(1):58-69.

• Hirdes, J. P., Tjam, E. Y., & Fries, B. E. (2001). Substudy 8: Eligibility for community, hospital and institutional services in Canada: A preliminary study of case managers in seven provinces. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Hollander,Marcus; Prince,Michael J (2002): Analysis of interfaces along the continuum of care: Final report: "The Third Way": A framework for organizing health related services for individuals with ongoing care needs and their families. Ottawa, ON: Home Care and Pharmaceuticals Division, Health Policy and Communications Branch, Health Canada.

  • Technical Report 1: Literature review
  • Technical Report 2: Seniors
  • Technical Report 3: Adults With Physical Disabilities
  • Technical Report 4: Adults Requiring Mental Health Services
  • Technical Report 5: Services for children with special needs and their families.
  • Technical Report 6: Interviews with key informants.

• Hollander,Marcus; Anderson,Malcolm; Beland,Francois; Havens,Betty; Keefe,Janice; Lawrence,William; Parent,Karen; Ritter,Richard (2000): The identification and analysis of incentives and disincentives and cost-effectiveness of various funding approaches for continuing care. Federal-provincial-territorial advisory committee on health services (ACHS) working group on continuing care.
  • Technical Report 1: Incentives and Disincentives in Funding Continuing Care Services Key Concepts, Literature and Findings for Canada.
  • Technical Report 2: The Public-Private Split in Continuing Care Case Studies of Nova Scotia and Alberta.
  • Technical Report 3: Case Study on the Hospital and Home Care Interface.
  • Technical Report 4: Case Study on Resource Allocation in Home Care Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia.
  • Technical Report 5: An Overview of Continuing Care Services in Canada

• Hollander,Marcus; Tessaro,Angela (2001): Evaluation of the maintenance and preventive function of home care: Final report. Victoria, BC: Hollander Analytical Services; prepared for Home Care/Pharmeuticals Division, Policy and Communciation Branch, Health Canada.

• Hollander,Marcus J (2003): Unfinished business: The case for chronic home care services, a policy paper. Victoria, BC: Hollander Analytical Services Ltd., August. Updated October 2004. Downloaded from http://www.hollanderanalytical.com/downloads/unfinishedbusiness.pdf, last accessed 23 January 2007.

• Hollander, M. J. (2002). Substudy 7: Overview of home care clients. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Hollander, M. & Chappell, N. (2002). Synthesis report: Final report on the national evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of home car. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Hollander, M. J. (2001). Substudy 1: Final report of the study on the comparative cost analysis of home care and residential care services. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Hollander, M., Chappell, N., Havens, B., McWilliam, C., Walker, E., Shaver, J. & Miller, J.A. (2001). Substudy 4: Pilot study of the costs and outcomes of home care and residential long term care services. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Hollander, M., Chappell, N., Havens, B., McWilliam, C., & Miller, J. A. (2002). Substudy 5: Study of the costs and outcomes of home care and residential long term care services. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Insurance Bureau of Canada. Restoring confidence. Insurance Bureau of Canada. Submission to: The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada and The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology.

• Jacobs, P. (2001). Substudy 9: Costs of acute care and home care services. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Jasper, J., Williams, A.P. & Deber, R. (2005). Falls prevention for seniors. Toronto, ON: Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community.

• Kim,Hwan; Colantonio,Angela; Deber,Raisa; Vernich,Lee (2006): Discharge destination from acute care after traumatic brain injury. Can. J. Neurol. Sci. 33(1), 48-52.

• Kuluski, K., Salib, D., Lum, J., Deber, R., Williams, A.P., Challis, D. (2006). The balance of care. Toronto, ON: Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community.

• Landry, Michel D; Deber, Raisa; Jaglal, Susan; Laporte, Audrey; Holyoke, Paul; Devitt, Rachel; Cott, Cheryl (2006): Assessing the consequences of delisting publicly funded community-based physical therapy on self-reported health in Ontario, Canada: A prospective cohort study. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research 29 (4, Dec), 303-307. The definitive version can be found at The International Journal of Rehabilitation Research

• Landry, M.D. (2005). Physical therapy services in Ontario: Assessing a changing public/private mix. Ph.D. Dissertation, Toronto, ON: Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

• Longo,C.J., Deber, R., Fitch, M, Williams, A.P. (2004). Characteristics of Out-of-Pocket Costs for Cancer Patients in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Clinical Oncology 22(14 Supplement), 15 July.

• Longo,C.J., Fitch, M., Deber, R., Williams, A.P. (2006) Financial and family burden associated with cancer treatment in Ontario, Canada. Support Care in Cancer, 14(11): 1077-1085.

• Lum, J., Leung, V., Ying, A., Williams, A.P. & Ruff, S. (2006). Supportive housing. Toronto, ON: Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community.

• Lum, J., Williams, A. P., Rappolt, S., Landry, M. D., Deber, R., & Verrier, M. Meeting the challenge of diversity: results from the 2003 survey of occupational therapists in Ontario. OT Now, 6(4), 2004.

• Lum, J.M., Ruff, S. & Williams A.P. (2005, April). When home is community: Community support services and the well-being of seniors in supportive and social housing. Toronto, ON: Ryerson. Downloaded from http://www.senior-link.com/PDF/United%20Way%20Final%20Report.pdf, last accessed 15 December 2006.

• NHSRU Fact Sheets:
  • Internationally Educated Nurses (IENS) in Ontario
  • Mobility of Nurses Within Canada
  • Rural Nursing Workforce: Backgrounder
  • Rural Nursing Workforce: How sustainable is it?
  • Canadian Nurse Migration to the United States ofAmerica
  • Casualization and SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome): Implications for Human Resource Policies
  • Understanding Nursing Vacancies: A Key to Improved Nurse Utilization, Cost Effectiveness and Patient Outcomes

• O'Brien-Pallas, L., Baumann, A., Birch, S. & Tomblin Murphy, G. (2000). Health human resource planning in homecare: How to approach it that is the question. HealthcarePapers. 1(4):53-59.
  The definitive version can be found at HealthcarePapers.

• Rathwell, T., Deber, R., Kenny, N., Nestman, L., Neville, D., Conrad, P., Nauenberg, E., Thompson, R. & Ward, T. Building a public dialogue framework for defining the medicare basket. Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, 2006. Downloaded from http://www.chsrf.ca/, last accessed 8 February 2007.

• Saltman, R. (2002): The Western European Experience with Health Care Reform. WHO/EURO, Copenhagen. Available online: http://www.euro.who.int/observatory/Publications/20020523_1, last accessed March 5, 2007.

• Shields, Margot. Findings from the 2005 National Survey of the Work and Health of Nurses. Ottawa: Statistics Canada and CIHI, 2006

• Stevens, B., McKeever, P., Coyte, P. C., Daub, S., Dunn, M., Gibbins, S., et al. (2001). Substudy 12: Cost-effectiveness of home versus hospital support of breast feeding in neonates. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Stone, C., Travers, P., Parker, K., Reynolds, S. & Dizon, S. (2005) Medical Laboratory Technology in Ontario: Provincial Labour Market Analysis and Human Resource Study: Part One: Medical Laboratory Technologists. Toronto, ON: The Michener Institute Research Department.

• Stone, C., Travers, P., Parker, K., Reynolds, S. & Dizon, S. (2005) Medical Laboratory Technology in Ontario: Provincial Labour Market Analysis and Human Resource Study: Part Two: Medical Laboratory Technicians/Assistants. Toronto, ON: The Michener Institute Research Department.

• Teplitsky, F., Williams, P., Deber, R., Lum, J. & Salib, D. (2006). Community Support Services. In Focus: Fact Sheet. Toronto, ON: Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community.

• Tousignant, M., Hbert, R., & Desrosiers, J. (2001). Substudy 10: Economic evaluation of a geriatric day hospital: Cost-benefit analysis based on functional autonomy changes. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Tuokko, H. A., & Rosenberg, T. (2001). Substudy 13: The Geriatric Outcome
  Evaluation Study (GOES). Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Uyeno, D., & Hollander, M. J. (2001). Substudy 2: Care trajectories: The natural history of clients moving through the continuing care system. Victoria: National Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Home Care.

• Williams, A.P., Salib, D., Lum, J., Malch, F. & Fine, R. (2006). Seniors' mental health and addictions. Toronto, ON: Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community.

• Williams, A.P., Spalding, K., McKeever, P. & Deber, R.B. Prescriptions for pediatric home care: Analyzing the impact of the shift from hospital to home and community on children and families. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto, March 2005.

• Williams, A. P., Rappolt, S., Lum, J., Deber, R., Verrier, M., & Landry, M. D. A portrait of occupational therapy in Ontario: Results of a 2003 survey. OT Now, 6(3):3-7, 2004.

• Willison,Donald; Wiktorowicz,Mary; Grootendorst,Paul; 'Brien,Bernie; Levine,Michell; Deber,Raisa; Hurley,Jeremiah: International Experience with Pharmaceutical Policy: Common Challenges and Lessons from Canada. CHEPA: Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis.