John Church is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Neale Smith is a research coordinator at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation at the University of British Columbia.
This case study is a valuable addition to the Provincial and Territorial Health System Profiles series, which recognizes that 'there is not, and has never been, a single Canadian health system.' Based on a template prepared for the World Health Organization and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Health Systems in Transition (HiT), it provides detailed information about health care in Alberta, and an analysis of its successes and failures. - Raisa Deber, Professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto This excellent volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative portrait of Alberta's health care system. It provides thorough descriptions and assessments of the system's organization, financing, and performance, written in clear, accessible prose. It will prove to be an indispensable tool for understanding the system's successes as well as its shortcomings and for mapping its future. It is a welcome addition to a much-needed series of provincial health system profiles. - Tom McIntosh, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Regina, and Co-Director, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU)