Public Health
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From  Pharmacare:Equity, Efficiency, and Effectiveness — We’ve Waited Long Enough. From: Medicare |
Analyzes the debate about pharmacare by noting the similarity between how we fund perscription drugs and the way America funds their entire health care system and notes our rejection of this … | Joel Lexchin | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From Poverty and Health:Implications for Health and Quality of Life From: Medicare |
Analyzes the relationship between poverty and health and how this has been missing from the health discussions by the policy makers | Dennis Raphael | 16 | 2007 | $1.60 Add |
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From PrefaceFrom: Medicare |
Gives a definition of Medicare so as to pinpoint the difference between the term in Canada and the US, a brief history of Medicare in Canada, outlines the conference in 2007 that led to this book. | Bruce Campbell; Greg Marchildon | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From Protecting Medicare from Foreign Commercial InterestsFrom: Medicare |
Analyzes the Canadian Health Care System and to what extent it falls under the domain of trade treaties despite the assurance that it is beyond trade treaties reach | Scott Sinclair | 10 | 2007 | $1.00 Add |
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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  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 |
 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  NEW! 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 |
