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Julia Abelson

Julia Abelson

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
57
Citations
12892
World Ranking
1776
National Ranking
97

Overview

Julia Abelson is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and conducts research primarily in the fields of Health Professions and Medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research addresses a range of topics with particular attention to Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Health Policy Implementation Science, Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Interprofessional Education and Collaboration, Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology.

They have published frequently in venues such as Health Expectations, Healthcare Policy, Research Involvement and Engagement, Health Policy, and Research Square.

  • Understanding patient partnership in health systems: lessons from the Canadian patient partner survey (2022, BMJ Open)
  • Towards conceptualizing patients as partners in health systems: a systematic review and descriptive synthesis (2023, Health Research Policy and Systems)
  • Developing a Canadian evaluation framework for patient and public engagement in research: study protocol (2021, Research Involvement and Engagement)
  • The impact of COVID-19 on patient engagement in the health system: Results from a Pan-Canadian survey of patient, family and caregiver partners (2022, Health Expectations)
  • Designing and Implementing Deliberative Processes for Health Technology Assessment: A Good Practices Report of a Joint HTAi/ISPOR Task Force (2022, Value in Health)

Julia Abelson's frequent co-authors include Meredith Vanstone, Laura Tripp, Mary Anne Levasseur, Jeonghwa You, and Rebecca Ganann.

Best Publications

  • How can research organizations more effectively transfer research knowledge to decision makers

    John N. Lavis;Dave Robertson;Jennifer M. Woodside;Christopher B. McLeod

  • Deliberations about deliberative methods: issues in the design and evaluation of public participation processes

    Julia Abelson;Pierre Gerlier Forest;John Eyles;Patricia Smith

  • Examining the Role of Health Services Research in Public Policymaking

    John N. Lavis;Suzanne E. Ross;Jeremiah E. Hurley

  • Public participation in health care priority setting: A scoping review.

    Craig Mitton;Craig Mitton;Neale Smith;Stuart Peacock;Stuart Peacock;Brian Evoy

  • 'The public is too subjective': public involvement at different levels of health-care decision making.

    Andrea Litva;Joanna Coast;Jenny Donovan;John Eyles

  • Patient and public engagement in research and health system decision making: A systematic review of evaluation tools

    Antoine Boivin;Audrey L'Espérance;François-Pierre Gauvin;Vincent Dumez

  • Bringing 'the public' into health technology assessment and coverage policy decisions: from principles to practice.

    Julia Abelson;Mita Giacomini;Pascale Lehoux;Francois-Pierre Gauvin

  • Deliberative dialogues as a mechanism for knowledge translation and exchange in health systems decision-making.

    Jennifer A. Boyko;John N. Lavis;Julia Abelson;Maureen Dobbins

  • Primary Care In Canada: So Much Innovation, So Little Change

    Brian Hutchison;Julia Abelson;John Lavis

  • Supporting quality public and patient engagement in health system organizations: development and usability testing of the Public and Patient Engagement Evaluation Tool

    Julia Abelson;Kathy Li;Geoff Wilson;Kristin Shields

  • A critical analysis of studies of state drug reimbursement policies: research in need of discipline.

    Stephen B. Soumerai;Dennis Ross-Degnan;Eric E. Fortess;Julia Abelson

  • Does deliberation make a difference? Results from a citizens panel study of health goals priority setting.

    Julia Abelson;John Eyles;Christopher B. McLeod;Patricia Collins

  • What is important to continuity in home care?. Perspectives of key stakeholders.

    Christel A Woodward;Julia Abelson;Sara Tedford;Brian Hutchison

  • Evaluating patient and public involvement in research

    Antoine Boivin;Tessa Richards;Laura Forsythe;Alexandre Grégoire

  • Examining the role of context in the implementation of a deliberative public participation experiment: results from a Canadian comparative study.

    Julia Abelson;Pierre Gerlier Forest;John Eyles;Ann Casebeer

  • "It all depends": conceptualizing public involvement in the context of health technology assessment agencies.

    Francois-Pierre Gauvin;Julia Abelson;Mita Giacomini;John Eyles

  • Assessing the Impacts of Public Participation: Concepts, Evidence and Policy Implications

    Julia Abelson;François-Pierre Gauvin

  • Are we expecting too much from print media? An analysis of newspaper coverage of the 2002 Canadian healthcare reform debate.

    Patricia A. Collins;Julia Abelson;Heather Pyman;John N. Lavis

  • How contexts and issues influence the use of policy-relevant research syntheses: a critical interpretive synthesis.

    Kaelan A. Moat;John N. Lavis;John N. Lavis;Julia Abelson

  • PUBLIC AND PATIENT INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: A FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION.

    Julia Abelson;Frank Wagner;Deirdre DeJean;Sarah Boesveld

  • Does the community want devolved authority? Results of deliberative polling in Ontario.

    Julia Abelson;Jonathan Lomas;John Eyles;Stephen Birch

  • What is public deliberation

    Erika Blacksher;Alice Diebel;Pierre Gerlier Forest;Susan Dorr Goold

Frequent Co-Authors

John N. Lavis
John N. Lavis McMaster University
John Eyles
John Eyles University of the Witwatersrand
Mauro Giacomini
Mauro Giacomini McMaster University
Stephen Birch
Stephen Birch University of Queensland
Pascale Lehoux
Pascale Lehoux University of Montreal
Susan Dorr Goold
Susan Dorr Goold University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James R. Dunn
James R. Dunn McMaster University
Stuart Peacock
Stuart Peacock Simon Fraser University
Wendy J. Ungar
Wendy J. Ungar University of Toronto
Craig Mitton
Craig Mitton University of British Columbia

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