Challenges in Public Health Governance / Claude Rocan and Trevor Hancock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rocan, Claude, author.

Hancock, Trevor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--Canada.

Medical policy.

Public health administration--Canada.

Public health administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : Invenire Books, [2012]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Challenges in Public Health Governance: The Canadian Experience is an examination of public health from a governance perspective. Part 1 begins with an examination of the fragmented nature of public health in Canada, identifies some major fault lines that characterize the public health realm, and reviews briefly the notion of network governance. Part 2 looks at specific public health theatres: crisis issues such as SARS and the H1N1 pandemic, and the ongoing work of the Canadian Heart Health Initiative. It also examines the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network as the key piece of network infrastructure at the national level. It seeks to demonstrate that current governance structures and mechanisms are inadequate to deal with the governance challenges facing public health, and that network governance, appropriately applied, is a means through which public health in Canada can better achieve its objectives. Part 3 examines the nature of the relationships with the voluntary sector, and discovers that much of the potential of these organizations to contribute to public health is being lost. Global trends further underline the need for broader, more inclusive forms of governance. Part 4 deals with the need to develop the tools for network governance to cope with issues related to governability, accountability, and legitimacy. The book ends with a proposal to establish a network governance regime in public health and identifies a series of practical steps that can be taken to achieve this objective."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

INTRODUCTION

I – SETTING THE STAGE

CHAPTER 1 – PUBLIC HEALTH AND FRAGMENTATION: THREE FAULT LINES

CHAPTER 2 – LOOKING AHEAD: IS NETWORK GOVERNANCE ‘THE ANSWER?’

II – PUBLIC HEALTH GOVERNANCE IN CANADA: THREE THEATRES

CHAPTER 3 – GOVERNANCE AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH NETWORK: TOO MUCH OR NOT ENOUGH?

CHAPTER 4 – GOVERNANCE IN ‘WAR TIME’: NETWORKS AND PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES

CHAPTER 5 – GOVERNANCE IN ‘PEACE-TIME’: THE CASE OF THE CANADIAN HEART HEALTH INITIATIVE

III – EXPANDING THE BASE

CHAPTER 6 – THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN PUBLIC HEALTH GOVERNANCE: PARTNERS IN NAME ONLY?

CHAPTER 7 – GLOBAL DRIVERS

IV – DEVELOPING THE TOOLS

CHAPTER 8 – FACING THE TOUGH QUESTIONS

CHAPTER 9 – TOWARDS A NETWORK GOVERNANCE REGIME IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780776638232

0776638238

OCLC:

1334881321