Public Health
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From  Protecting Public Safety and HealthFrom: National Security Law |
Discusses natural threats to national security and public health and safety, such as extreme weather, seismic events, epidemic disease, industrial disasters and failures of critical … | Craig Forcese | 24 | 2007 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Public Policy and the Social Determinants of Health |
Chapter Six dissects the relationship between public policy and the social determinants of health in Canada, highlighting the country’s poor performance in addressing health inequities and … | Dennis Raphael | 53 | 2024 | $5.30 Add |
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From  Queer Families, Compensatory Motherhood, and the Political Culture of EscalationFrom: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
This chapter examines the role of the family as a dangerous place of production of this group-based negative loyalty, male control, and violence. The author suggests that the rising legitimacy of … | Sarah Schulman | 22 | 2016 | $0.44 Add |
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From  Raleigh, North CarolinaFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the small town of Raleigh, North Carolina, where activists Robert Childs, Minister Michelle Mathis, Steve Daniels and many others worked around the law and came up … | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 Add |
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From  References and NotesFrom: Conceivable |
This "chapter" is a bibliography. | Laine Halpern Zisman | 33 | 2024 | $3.30 Add |
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From  Samantha Power in Conversation with Rudyard GriffithsApril 30, 2020 From: The World After Covid |
Samantha Power and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and international affairs and global politics. Topics include global social and economics inequalities, different countries’ responses … | Rudyard Griffiths | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Sara’s StoryFrom: The Doctors We Need |
In this chapter, Sanfilippo follows Sara, a 65-year-old immigrant to Canada, who battles infective endocarditis after years without a family physician. | Anthony Sanfilippo | 10 | 2024 | $1.00 Add |
 Secret Life of Your MicrobiomeWhy Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness |
The Secret Life of Your Microbiome presents a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science; we’re deeply connected to the biodiversity of nature through our microbiomes — the … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 387 | 2017 | View |
 NEW! Shadows and LightA Physician's Lens on Covid |
When the pandemic began in March 2020, Calgary emergency physician Heather Patterson was already feeling burnt out. Photography had always been a way of unwinding for her, and as the pandemic … | Heather Patterson | 176 | 2022 | View |
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From  SmallpoxFrom: Country of Poxes |
Chapter 3 examines the history of smallpox. Discussing topics includingsmallpox origins, early accounts of smallpox outbreaks across North America, the emergence of new mutations, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 66 | 2022 | $6.60 Add |
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From NEW! Social Exclusion |
Chapter Five unpacks the concept of social exclusion and its relationship to health outcomes in Canada, highlighting the experiences of marginalized groups such as Indigenous Peoples, people of … | Dennis Raphael | 30 | 2024 | $3.00 Add |
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From  SOS Medicare:A (Cautionary) Tale of Two Conferences From: Medicare |
Discusses the 2 SOS Medicare Conferences and the importance of Public Health | Douglas; Shirley | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From Styles of Rationing Health Care:The United States vs. Canada From: Medicare |
Looks at the erosion of the faith in US Health Care, Cost and Quality of US Health Care, a snapshot of Canada’s Health Care system, advantages and disadvantages of Singly-payer health care … | Uwe E. Reinhardt | 20 | 2007 | $2.00 Add |
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From Surviving the Dysbiosphere |
The international statistics on mental health in developed nations are troubling to say the least. In the United States 25 percent of the adult population reports having a mental illness in a … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 35 | 2017 | $3.50 Add |
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From SyphilisFrom: Country of Poxes |
Chapter 2 focuses on syphilis. Topics discussed include the debate around syphilis’ origins, the politics of colonialism, the “Columbian exchange”, the stages of syphilis, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 56 | 2022 | $5.60 Add |
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From  Taking Stock:Comparable Services From: Equal as Citizens |
Analysis if the provinces were able to offer comparable levels of public service and examines how the Harper 2011 health funding and earlier ransacking of equalization left a giant disparity with … | Richard Starr | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
