Public Health
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Fighting For SpaceHow a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction |
North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of … | Travis Lupick | 408 | 2017 | View |
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From ![]() ForewordFrom: Country of Poxes |
Forward from Dr. Darlene Kitty. | Darlene Kitty | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() ForewordFrom: The Accidental Caregiver |
The foreword to The Accidental Caregiver, written by Dr. T. Jock Murray of Dalhousie University, examines the unprepared nature of family caregiving and the isolation it produces. | Kimberly Fraser | 4 | 2022 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements |
James G. Wigmore | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! ForwardFrom: Shadows and Light |
A forward from Dr. Katharine Smart. | Heather Patterson | 2 | 2022 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() ForwardFrom: Out Loud |
Forward | Ramona Dearing | 2 | 2010 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() From Housing to Harm ReductionFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the synergy between VANDU and PHS as they grappled to establish basic facilities for the homeless population in Vancouver. Caught in the sparring between the health board … | Travis Lupick | 26 | 2017 | $0.52 Add |
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From ![]() Fulfilling the Douglas/Lloyd VisionFrom: Medicare |
Looks at how to fulfill the legacies of Tommy Douglas and Woodrow Lloyd and the steps that need to be taken in order to do so and outlines two promising areas of advancement | Allan E. Blakeney | 6 | 2007 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() Getting Back to Our Roots – Nathan Lewis and the Veteran’s SanctuaryFrom: 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 discusses the … | Stephanie Westlund | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Getting from Here to There |
This chapter looks at the next steps for making basic income a reality in Canada. | Evelyn L. Forget | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() Global Conflicts, Tensions, and Risks |
In this chapter, Cowan examines international security from the fourteenth century to 2022, connecting the historical campaign against piracy to modern counter-terrorism efforts. | John Scott Cowan | 80 | 2023 | $8.00 Add |
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From ![]() Go Careful With That Blood of Mine: Blood CountsFrom: Blood |
From Blood: The Stuff of Life | Lawrence Hill | 66 | 2013 | $6.60 Add |
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From ![]() Group Applications in Nature-based TherapyFrom: Nature-Based Therapy |
The therapeutic factors of instillation of hope, universality, imparting information, altruism, development of socializing techniques, imitative behavior, group cohesiveness, and existential … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() Growing Inequality, Basic Needs, and HealthFrom: Medicare |
Looks at the growing economic gap and how it factors into the health debate | Armine Yalnizyan | 6 | 2007 | $0.60 Add |
![]() Health and WealthHow Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being |
This book looks at the well-known link between social equality and the health and well-being of a country’s population, with a Canadian perspective and using Canadian data. As of 1999, when … | 136 | View | ||
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From ![]() Health CareA Public Right or a Private Option From: Canada after Harper |
Colleen Fuller first relates how underfunding, privatization, and other neoliberal health care policies have undermined medicare. | Colleen Fuller | 24 | 2015 | $2.40 Add |

















