Public Health
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From  Biodiversity: Getting it Under Your Skin |
Humans often need to see threats to the environment, and, by extension to their health and survival. Progressive losses over time can dilute urgency and awareness. So can progressive gains. One … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 24 | 2017 | $2.40 Add |
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From Biophilic ScienceA Brighter Future |
All too often, science is now being used for technological applications that have nothing to do with human needs and aim only at creating new artificial wants. Even the most enthusiastic … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 40 | 2017 | $4.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Calling the shotsCanada’s Big Pharma-first response to COVID-19 From: The Trudeau Record |
This chapter discusses the Trudeau government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Adam R. Houston | 14 | 2024 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Can We Afford a Basic Income? |
This chapter assesses the cost of basic income and whether it’s something we can realistically afford. | Evelyn L. Forget | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Canada’s Shared Destiny and the Future of MedicareFrom: Medicare |
Examines the choice that we as Canadians make about medicare as one that is fundamentally intertwined with our nation’s values and its future. Looks at medicare reform from this persepective | Roy Romanow | 19 | 2007 | $1.90 Add |
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From Canada’s Single-payer Medicare:Role Model for Taiwan From: Medicare |
Examines the adoption of a single-payer medicare system in Taiwain that is based off the model of Canada’s system and looks at the potential for public underfunding | May Tsung-Mei Cheng | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From Canadian Experiments with Basic Income |
This chapter provides brief overviews of limited-scale experiments with basic income across Canada, how they were implemented and their results. | Evelyn L. Forget | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
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From Changing the Landscape in the Health Care Affordability DebateFrom: Medicare |
Looks at the Health Care affordability debate by exploring what is left out of the statistics used by the Government such as population growth, inflation and income growth. Looks at what it would … | Diana Gibson | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From Chaoulli’s Legacy for the Future of Canadian Health Care PolicyFrom: Medicare |
I discuss the majority judges’ poor appreciation of the interface between public and private health insurance across different health care systems and how, subsequently, this lack of … | Colleen Flood | 45 | 2007 | $4.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 18Social Media |
Wood compares two equations: the number of hours on the Apollo mission over eleven years and the number of combined hours humanity spent on social media in 2019. Quitting social media isn’t … | Alex Wood | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Childhood Trauma and the Science of AddictionFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 1998, Dr. Gabor Mate placed a lucrative career on hold and joined hands with Liz Evans, treating addicts in the Downtown Eastside. Mate’s eight years with the Portland Hotel meant … | Travis Lupick | 26 | 2017 | $0.52 Add |
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From  Cigarettes |
Chapter Four includes the following topics: History – Filters/Light Cigarettes, Menthol, Other Additives/Flavours/Toxins – Health Risks – Secondhand/Passive Smoke – Third- … | James G. Wigmore | 159 | 2023 | $15.90 Add |
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From Completing the Vision:Achieving the Second Stage of Medicare From: Medicare |
Looks at the original vision for Medicare in Saskatchewan, how the system as worked where implemented properly, how the second stage has been left out of implementation in many places, and … | Michael Rachlis | 29 | 2007 | $2.90 Add |
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From Completing the Vision:Prevention and Community Health Centres From: Medicare |
Analyzes that the second stage of medicare needs to be about prevention and community health centres | France Gélinas | 6 | 2007 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Connections Between Nature and HealingFrom: Field Excercises |
Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading explores the ways … | Stephanie Westlund | 25 | 2014 | $2.50 Add |
 NEW! Country of PoxesThree Germs and the Taking of Territory |
Country of Poxes is the story of land theft in North America through three diseases: syphilis, smallpox and tuberculosis. These infectious diseases reveal that medical care, widely considered a … | 208 | View |
