Neale Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3929039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neale Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neale |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3850-9588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Why public health matters today more than ever
The reallocation challenge
High performance in healthcare priority setting and resource allocation
A politics of priority setting
Across a range of health care systems there is a responsibility placed on meso-level budget holders to set priorities and allocate resources within constrained budgets. The literature suggests that these organizations have typically defaulted to historical and/or political processes for decision making. Whilst the literature on resource allocation in health care attests to the political nature of decision making, this has remained largely under-t…
Determining and broadening the definition of impact from implementing a rational priority setting approach in a healthcare organization
Current Evaluation Practices Involving Resource Allocation Processes in Canadian Healthcare Organizations
Resource allocation is a key function of senior leadership teams within healthcare organizations. Academic support of this function has traditionally focused on constructing tools to make decisions more formalized, and much less attention has been paid to understanding resource allocation as a management process. In particular, evaluation has been a missing aspect. The authors conducted a pan-Canadian survey of senior managers within the healthca…
Integrating public input into healthcare priority-setting decisions
Decision makers are pressed to involve the public in priority setting. However, public input is only one form of evidence. So, how can information from the public be combined with other knowledge? The authors qualitatively analysed articles that explicitly address this question. We identified the other forms of information that tend to be used in conjunction with public input, the degree to which members of the public are asked to be the integrat…
Do Provincial Drug Benefit Initiatives Create an Effective Policy Lab? The Evidence from Canada
Although the costs of doctors' visits and hospital stays in Canada are covered by national public health insurance, the cost of outpatient prescription drugs is not. To solve problems of access, Canadian provinces have introduced provincial prescription drug benefit programs. This study analyzes the prescription drug policymaking process in five Canadian provinces between 1992 and 2004 with a view to (1) determining the federal government's role …
Incorporating local knowledge(s) in health promotion
Historically, Western liberal democracies have defined relevant knowledge for social and economic management as that produced by experts following established professional methods. As we experience a shift from government to governance, state departments and bodies have attempted to impose their own desire for this particular form of knowledge, typically constructed as quantitative performance measures, onto their community partners. This is done…
Public participation in health care priority setting
Great expectations and hard times
This paper reports on expectations for and community members' experience in the development of community indicators in a healthy communities initiative (HCI) in Alberta, Canada. The HCI process involved community visioning, the creation of action plans to further the vision by addressing key health priorities and/or community capacity building activities and the development of indicators to monitor and report on progress towards goals. Nineteen s…
Health reform in Alberta
In 1994, the Government of Alberta passed the Regional Health Authorities Act to abolish nearly 200 existing local hospital and public health boards and replace them with seventeen regional health authorities. Consistent with the larger fiscal agenda, the government's intention was to address health‐care system efficiency through larger integrated management and governance structures. In this article, the authors examine why Alberta decided to cr…
Health reform and privatization in Alberta
In 2000 the Government of Alberta passed legislation to regulate the activities of private health clinics in the provision of insured health services through contracts with regional health authorities. In seven years the interaction of ideas, interests, institutions, and external events forced the Government of Alberta to move from a non‐regulatory policy stance to a policy of stringent regulation. The legislation struck a balance among competing…
An indigenous role in partnerships for sustainable homelands occupation in Australia
This project investigates partnerships for environmentally sustainable development (ESD) in a remote part of Australia, from the perspective of indigenous groups, through grounded research involving priority setting, implementation trials and evaluation. By exemplifying the role of the indigenous non‐government organizations (INGOs) and local clan representatives, recommendations for partnership design that enhance equity in partner engagement ar…
Caught in the Web
As health promotion practitioners, we have been encouraged to implement strategies that embrace a community-building approach for strengthening community health. In this article, we present our experience in piloting a methodology to assess the extent to which community capacity was built in a rural heart health project. We defined community capacity as the degree to which a community (and its agency partners) can develop, implement, and sustain …
A politics of priority setting
Across a range of health care systems there is a responsibility placed on meso-level budget holders to set priorities and allocate resources within constrained budgets. The literature suggests that these organizations have typically defaulted to historical and/or political processes for decision making. Whilst the literature on resource allocation in health care attests to the political nature of decision making, this has remained largely under-t…
Integrating public input into healthcare priority-setting decisions
Decision makers are pressed to involve the public in priority setting. However, public input is only one form of evidence. So, how can information from the public be combined with other knowledge? The authors qualitatively analysed articles that explicitly address this question. We identified the other forms of information that tend to be used in conjunction with public input, the degree to which members of the public are asked to be the integrat…
High performance in healthcare priority setting and resource allocation
Health reform in Alberta
In 1994, the Government of Alberta passed the Regional Health Authorities Act to abolish nearly 200 existing local hospital and public health boards and replace them with seventeen regional health authorities. Consistent with the larger fiscal agenda, the government's intention was to address health‐care system efficiency through larger integrated management and governance structures. In this article, the authors examine why Alberta decided to cr…
Health reform and privatization in Alberta
In 2000 the Government of Alberta passed legislation to regulate the activities of private health clinics in the provision of insured health services through contracts with regional health authorities. In seven years the interaction of ideas, interests, institutions, and external events forced the Government of Alberta to move from a non‐regulatory policy stance to a policy of stringent regulation. The legislation struck a balance among competing…
An indigenous role in partnerships for sustainable homelands occupation in Australia
This project investigates partnerships for environmentally sustainable development (ESD) in a remote part of Australia, from the perspective of indigenous groups, through grounded research involving priority setting, implementation trials and evaluation. By exemplifying the role of the indigenous non‐government organizations (INGOs) and local clan representatives, recommendations for partnership design that enhance equity in partner engagement ar…
Why public health matters today more than ever
The reallocation challenge
Caught in the Web
As health promotion practitioners, we have been encouraged to implement strategies that embrace a community-building approach for strengthening community health. In this article, we present our experience in piloting a methodology to assess the extent to which community capacity was built in a rural heart health project. We defined community capacity as the degree to which a community (and its agency partners) can develop, implement, and sustain …
An indigenous role in partnerships for sustainable homelands occupation in Australia
This project investigates partnerships for environmentally sustainable development (ESD) in a remote part of Australia, from the perspective of indigenous groups, through grounded research involving priority setting, implementation trials and evaluation. By exemplifying the role of the indigenous non‐government organizations (INGOs) and local clan representatives, recommendations for partnership design that enhance equity in partner engagement ar…
Health reform and privatization in Alberta
In 2000 the Government of Alberta passed legislation to regulate the activities of private health clinics in the provision of insured health services through contracts with regional health authorities. In seven years the interaction of ideas, interests, institutions, and external events forced the Government of Alberta to move from a non‐regulatory policy stance to a policy of stringent regulation. The legislation struck a balance among competing…
Great expectations and hard times
This paper reports on expectations for and community members' experience in the development of community indicators in a healthy communities initiative (HCI) in Alberta, Canada. The HCI process involved community visioning, the creation of action plans to further the vision by addressing key health priorities and/or community capacity building activities and the development of indicators to monitor and report on progress towards goals. Nineteen s…
Health reform in Alberta
In 1994, the Government of Alberta passed the Regional Health Authorities Act to abolish nearly 200 existing local hospital and public health boards and replace them with seventeen regional health authorities. Consistent with the larger fiscal agenda, the government's intention was to address health‐care system efficiency through larger integrated management and governance structures. In this article, the authors examine why Alberta decided to cr…
Public participation in health care priority setting
Do Provincial Drug Benefit Initiatives Create an Effective Policy Lab? The Evidence from Canada
Although the costs of doctors' visits and hospital stays in Canada are covered by national public health insurance, the cost of outpatient prescription drugs is not. To solve problems of access, Canadian provinces have introduced provincial prescription drug benefit programs. This study analyzes the prescription drug policymaking process in five Canadian provinces between 1992 and 2004 with a view to (1) determining the federal government's role …
Incorporating local knowledge(s) in health promotion
Historically, Western liberal democracies have defined relevant knowledge for social and economic management as that produced by experts following established professional methods. As we experience a shift from government to governance, state departments and bodies have attempted to impose their own desire for this particular form of knowledge, typically constructed as quantitative performance measures, onto their community partners. This is done…
Integrating public input into healthcare priority-setting decisions
Decision makers are pressed to involve the public in priority setting. However, public input is only one form of evidence. So, how can information from the public be combined with other knowledge? The authors qualitatively analysed articles that explicitly address this question. We identified the other forms of information that tend to be used in conjunction with public input, the degree to which members of the public are asked to be the integrat…
Current Evaluation Practices Involving Resource Allocation Processes in Canadian Healthcare Organizations
Resource allocation is a key function of senior leadership teams within healthcare organizations. Academic support of this function has traditionally focused on constructing tools to make decisions more formalized, and much less attention has been paid to understanding resource allocation as a management process. In particular, evaluation has been a missing aspect. The authors conducted a pan-Canadian survey of senior managers within the healthca…
A politics of priority setting
Across a range of health care systems there is a responsibility placed on meso-level budget holders to set priorities and allocate resources within constrained budgets. The literature suggests that these organizations have typically defaulted to historical and/or political processes for decision making. Whilst the literature on resource allocation in health care attests to the political nature of decision making, this has remained largely under-t…
Determining and broadening the definition of impact from implementing a rational priority setting approach in a healthcare organization
The reallocation challenge
High performance in healthcare priority setting and resource allocation
Why public health matters today more than ever
Political science (14 works) · Health care (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Nursing (7 works)