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Raisa B. Deber

Raisa B. Deber

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
7461
World Ranking
5885
National Ranking
348

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Raisa B. Deber is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily addresses issues within health professions and social sciences, with a focus on geriatric care, nursing homes, healthcare innovation, employment, and social policy.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Health Professions
  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study comprise:

  • General Health Professions
  • Education
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Health

Raisa B. Deber's work prominently covers the following topics:

  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Disaster Response and Management

Selected recent papers include:

  • Forecasting Staffing Needs for Ontario's Long-Term Care Sector, 2022, Healthcare policy
  • COVID-19 Issues in Long-Term Care in Ontario: A Document Analysis, 2022, Healthcare policy
  • Addressing the Capital Requirement: Perspectives on the Need for More Long-Term-Care Beds in Ontario, 2022, Canadian Public Policy
  • Nurses' work, work psychology, and the evolution & devolution of care provision in nursing homes: A scoping review, 2023, International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances
  • The Disadvantaged Home Care Personal Support Worker: Differences in Job Characteristics, Unionization, Pensions, Participation, and Wages by Care Sector in Canada, 2022, Journal of Applied Gerontology

The researcher frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Healthcare policy
  • Journal of Applied Gerontology
  • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
  • UNC Libraries
  • Canadian Public Policy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Raisa B. Deber include:

  • Audrey Laporte
  • Andrea Baumann
  • Mary Crea-Arsenio
  • Katherine Zagrodney
  • Adrian Rohit Dass

In 2018, Raisa B. Deber was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Academy of Social Sciences category.

Best Publications

  • What role do patients wish to play in treatment decision making

    Raisa B. Deber;Nancy Kraetschmer;Jane Irvine

  • Do people want to be autonomous patients? Preferred roles in treatment decision-making in several patient populations.

    Raisa B. Deber;Nancy Kraetschmer;Sara Urowitz;Natasha Sharpe

  • How does trust affect patient preferences for participation in decision-making?

    Nancy Kraetschmer;Natasha Sharpe;Sara Urowitz;Raisa B. Deber

  • Physicians in health care management: 7. The patient-physician partnership: changing roles and the desire for information

    R B Deber

  • Overconfidence among physicians and nurses: The ‘micro-certainty, macro-uncertainty’ phenomenon

    Andrea O. Baumann;Raisa B. Deber;Gail G. Thompson

  • Financial and family burden associated with cancer treatment in Ontario, Canada

    Christopher J. Longo;Margaret Fitch;Raisa B. Deber;A. Paul Williams

  • Physicians in health care management: 8. The patient-physician partnership: decision making, problem solving and the desire to participate

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  • Counting backward to health care's future : Using time-to-death modeling to identify changes in end-of-life morbidity and the impact of aging on health care expenditures

    Greg Payne;Audrey Laporte;Raisa Deber;Peter C Coyte

  • Randomized, Controlled Trial of an Interactive Videodisc Decision Aid for Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease

    Matthew W. Morgan;Raisa B. Deber;Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas;Peter Gladstone

  • From Equal Access to Health Care to Equitable Access to Health: A Review of Canadian Provincial Health Commissions and Reports

    S L Mhatre;R B Deber

  • Patient, consumer, client, or customer: what do people want to be called?

    Raisa B. Deber;Nancy Kraetschmer;Sara Urowitz;Natasha Sharpe

  • Health Care Reform: Lessons From Canada

    Raisa Berlin Deber

  • The evolving role of health care aides in the long-term care and home and community care sectors in Canada.

    Whitney Berta;Audrey Laporte;Raisa Deber;Andrea Baumann

  • An examination of cancer patients' monthly 'out-of-pocket' costs in Ontario, Canada.

    C.J. Longo;R. Deber;M. Fitch;A.P. Williams

  • Who cares? Who cures? The ongoing debate in the provision of health care

    Andrea O. Baumann;Raisa B. Deber;Barbara E. Silverman;Claire M. Mallette

  • The intensive care unit work environment: Current challenges and recommendations for the future

    Mohamad Alameddine;Katie N Dainty;Raisa Deber;William J Bill Sibbald

  • “The Fault, Dear Brutus”: Women As Congressional Candidates In Pennsylvania

    Raisa B. Deber

  • Almost Home: Reforming Home and Community Care in Ontario

    Patricia M. Baranek;Raisa B. Deber;A. Paul Williams

  • Healthcare Restructuring: The Impact of Job Change

    A.Baumann;P.Giovannetti;L. O'Brien-Pallas;C. Mallette

  • Balancing institutional and community-based care: why some older persons can age successfully at home while others require residential long-term care.

    A. Paul Williams;David Challis;Raisa Deber;Jillian Watkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie L. Roos
Leslie L. Roos University of Manitoba
Richard H. Glazier
Richard H. Glazier University of Toronto
Charles M. Deber
Charles M. Deber University of Toronto
François Champagne
François Champagne University of Montreal
Stirling Bryan
Stirling Bryan University of British Columbia
Allison McGeer
Allison McGeer University of Toronto
Sabrina T. Wong
Sabrina T. Wong University of British Columbia
Jane Irvine
Jane Irvine York University
Thomas W. Valente
Thomas W. Valente University of Southern California
Trisha Greenhalgh
Trisha Greenhalgh University of Oxford

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