Public Health
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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  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  How to Protect a Public Health Care SystemFrom: Medicare |
Examines the two competeing ideologies in the debate about the roles of government and the private sector in the financing and delivery of health care. The two competing ideologies are the … | Alan Maynard | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Oppression: Redistributive Politics and Public PolicyFrom: Oppression |
This chapter examines how public policies — in particular spending by governments on social and health programs — can lead to oppressive practices and conditions. | Toba Bryant | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Pandemic InsightTime to Create Change From: Shadows and Light |
Chapter Eight reflects on what we can learn from the pandemic and how we should move forward both personally and professionally. Topics discussed include the long road to recovery, the trauma … | Heather Patterson | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From  "Life is Good Now" – Shepherd Bliss and Kokopelli FarmFrom: 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 tells the story of … | Stephanie Westlund | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
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From Ethics in Nature-based TherapyFrom: 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 … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 27 | 2019 | $2.70 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  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 |
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From Obsessed by Profits: Big Pharma and the Corruption of HealthFrom: Oppression |
This chapter starts with an overall description of Big Pharma, goes on to discuss the consequences of drug companies’ overriding objective of increasing sales in order to increase profits, … | Joel Lexchin | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Concert of LifeHolistic Harmony |
Biodiversity, as we will see, is consciousness. It is life. We will also see that the story of interconnection, of Darwin’s clover — cats meant less mice, more bees, and thus more … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 33 | 2017 | $3.30 Add |
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From The Truth about the Drug CompaniesFrom: Medicare |
Examines the pharmaceutical industry and the paradox of what the drug companies say vs. what really happens. Concludes with a recommendation for pharmacare in Canada | Marcia Angell | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Black Lives under LockdownCOVID-19 and Racial Injustice Converge From: Africentric Social Work |
This chapter provides an overview of the COVID-19 pandemic, then discusses this event in the context of Africentric Social Work | Delores V. Mullings; Jennifer Clarke; Sulaimon Giwa | 35 | 2021 | $3.50 Add |
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From Making a Case for Green Care in North AmericaFrom: 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. | Stephanie Westlund | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
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From Market-based Health Care in the United States and its Lessons for CanadaFrom: Medicare |
Analyzes the market-based health care system in the US and what Canada can learn from it. Concludes that The US experience has shown the world that, when you allow investor-owned for-profit … | Arnold S. Relman | 11 | 2007 | $1.10 Add |
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From Marlies’ Recipes for ‘The Secret Life’ |
I focus on healing and balancing the microbiome, because the bacteria in your gut can affect the health of your digestive system, immune system, and mental wellbeing. Since making fermentation an … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 36 | 2017 | $3.60 Add |
