Public Health

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Early Child Development, Food Security and Housing
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Early Child Development, Food Security and Housing

From: About Canada: Health and Illness

Chapter Four details the social determinants of health, for example early childhood development, food security, public policy, and housing highlighting the significant impact of these factors on … 26 $2.60 Add
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Economic Myths and Political Realities:

Economic Myths and Political Realities:

The Inequality Agenda and the Sustainability of Medicare

From: Medicare

Analyzes the economic and political sides of the Canadian Medicare system. Specifically looks at the ideas of a sustainable medicare system and how the system is fraught with inequality 48 $4.80 Add
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Editorial Note

Editorial Note

From: The Doctors We Need

This editorial note untangles the often-blurred meanings of primary care, general practice, and family medicine. 2 $0.20 Add
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Elizabeth (Sabet) Biscage, Yellowknife
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Elizabeth (Sabet) Biscage, Yellowknife

From: Book of Hope

In this chapter, Elizabeth (Sabet) Biscaye, a Chipewyan Dene woman from Yellowknife, recounts her colon cancer diagnosis, surgery, and recovery. 8 $0.80 Add
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Encephalobiotics Turn the Mind

Encephalobiotics Turn the Mind

From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome

In this chapter, we more closely examine specific microbial and nutritional interventions, and the prospect that we might regain health by correcting dysbiosis and manipulating microbes. The … ; 35 $3.50 Add
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Epilogue
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Epilogue

The Fight of My Life

From: Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea

The book wraps up with Wood discussing boxing and how a fighter just needs to keep getting up. One loss doesn’t mean everything is over. After a big relapse, Wood is diagnosed with … 11 $1.10 Add
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Essays 1

Essays 1

From: Out Loud

A selection of 11 essays on the subject of mental illness. The authors discuss their experiences with mental illness, how it affects their families and their personal lives and how they work to … 49 $4.90 Add
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Essays 2

Essays 2

From: Out Loud

A selection of 14 essays on the subject of mental illness. The authors discuss their experiences with mental illness, how it affects their families and their personal lives and how they work to … 59 $5.90 Add
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Essays 3

Essays 3

From: Out Loud

A selection of 15 essays on the subject of mental illness. The authors discuss their experiences with mental illness, how it affects their families and their personal lives and how they work to … 59 $5.90 Add
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Essays 4

Essays 4

From: Out Loud

A selection of 12 essays on the subject of mental illness. The authors discuss their experiences with mental illness, how it affects their families and their personal lives and how they work to … 54 $5.40 Add
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Ethics in Nature-based Therapy

Ethics in Nature-based Therapy

From: Nature-Based Therapy

As ethical practitioners and researchers, we ask our colleagues to ensure your practices are guided by an ethic of care, child and family rights, and professionalism. Ultimately, in the name of … ; ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Failing to Deliver

Failing to Deliver

From: The Doctors We Need

In this chapter, Sanfilippo examines why Canada’s growing demand for family physicians has outpaced the supply, identifying medical school admissions as a critical bottleneck in the system. 13 $1.30 Add
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Fareed Zakaria in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

Fareed Zakaria in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

April 15, 2020

From: The World After Covid

Fareed Zakara and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and its global impacts. Topics include the world’s transition into a post-American world and China’s current power and influence, … 13 $1.30 Add
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Federal Pharmacare:

Federal Pharmacare:

Prescription for an Ailing Federation?

From: Medicare

Makes an argument in favour of federal pharamcare in Canada as opposed to provincial. The federal government has virtually all the regulatory tools, while the provinces are responsible for … 18 $1.80 Add
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Fevers Future: How We Respond to Infections to Come

Fevers Future: How We Respond to Infections to Come

From: Country of Poxes

Chapter 5 reflects on how prepared Canada is to respond to the future infectious diseases outbreaks to come. Discussing topics including the COVID-19 pandemic, contemporary medicine’s ties … 17 $1.70 Add
Field Excercises

Field Excercises

How Veterans are Healing Themselves Through Farming and Outdoor Activities

There are nearly 25 million veterans and active-duty soldiers in North America. Some experts estimate that more than one quarter of these men and women suffer from post-traumatic distress, and … 242 View