OBJECTIVES Despite attempts, policy silences continue to create barriers to addressing the healthcare needs of First Nations, Inuit and Métis. The purpose of this article is to answer the question, if what we have in Canada is an Aboriginal health policy patchwork that fails to address inequities, then what would a Healthy Aboriginal Health Policy framework look like? METHODS The data collect...

The concept of ‘dragonisation’ was the first authoritative attempt to engage with criminal justice policy in post-devolution Wales. Its central claim, that devolution created space and conditions for progressive flourish Wales while remaining part unitary England jurisdiction, remains largely unchallenged more than a decade since it entered Welsh criminological vocabulary. By reviewing developm...

OBJECTIVES This article describes provincial variations in women's hospital use during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period. DATA SOURCE The data were extracted from the Person-Oriented Information Data Base, maintained by Health Statistics Division at Statistics Canada. This data base is comprised of hospital admission data submitted by general and allied hospitals to provincial an...

With his 1979 article "Do we really ever get out of anarchy?" Alfred Cuzán provides us with a wonderful insight: "Anarchy, like matter, never disappears it only changes form." Cuzán argues that anarchy, defined as the absence of a third party territorial monopolist of ultimate jurisdiction, is omnipresent: Regardless of what political system we live under, there will always be anarchic relation...

OBJECTIVE Relatively little is known about the ability of Canadian emergency departments (EDs) and the federal, provincial and territorial governments to quantify ED activity. The objectives of this study were to determine the use of electronic patient data in Canadian EDs, the accessibility of provincial data on ED visits, and to identify the data elements and current methods of ED information...