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Taking Policy-Practice Gaps Seriously: The Experience of Primary Health Care Networks in Western Canada

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The Reform of Health Care

Part of the book series: Organizational Behaviour in Health Care series ((OBHC))

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What happens between the development of a broadly espoused public policy and its effective implementation? How do health care organisations actually implement government policies when those policies are of an over-arching nature, providing direction but few specifics? These questions are not new, but we still struggle to find answers that benefit both policy-makers and service providers.

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  1. Ann Casebeer
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  2. Trish Reay
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Birmingham, UK

    Helen Dickinson (Senior Lecturer) & Russell Mannion (Professor of Health Systems) (Senior Lecturer) &  (Professor of Health Systems)

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Casebeer, A., Reay, T. (2012). Taking Policy-Practice Gaps Seriously: The Experience of Primary Health Care Networks in Western Canada. In: Dickinson, H., Mannion, R. (eds) The Reform of Health Care. Organizational Behaviour in Health Care series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355026_15

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