Health Care
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() About Canada: Disability Rights2nd Edition |
Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some … | Deborah Stienstra | 168 | 2020 | View |
![]() About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition |
Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this … | Dennis Raphael | 192 | 2016 | View |
![]() Care and ConsequencesThe Impact of Health Care Reform |
Over the past decade health care in Canada has shifted from a cure-care model to a business model. Disguised behind talk of community, care closer to home, consumer choice, patient rights, … | Diana L. Gustafson | 325 | 2000 | View |
![]() Doctors in DenialWhy Big Pharma and the Canadian Medical Profession are Too Close for Comfort |
Examines the relationship between the Canadian medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry, and explains how doctors have become dependents of the drug companies instead of champions of … | Joel Lexchin MD | 344 | 2017 | View |
![]() 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 | ||
![]() MedicareFacts, Myths, Problems & Promise |
Most health care professionals are committed to the principles of medicare, and so are most other Canadians. Yet everyone recognizes that the health care system has serious problems, and often … | Bruce Campbell; Greg Marchildon | 2007 | View | |
From ![]() Health of the PopulationFrom: Health and Wealth |
A discussion of Canadian policies and pracices around the promotion of a healthy population in Canada in the 1990s, with context on activities elsewhere in the developed world in the same time period. | 22 | $2.20 Add | ||
From ![]() IntroductionHealth Care Reform and its Impact on Canadian Women From: Care and Consequences |
- | Diana L. Gustafson | 10 | 2000 | $1.10 Add |
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 |
From ![]() What Are Disability Rights? |
In the first chapter, What Are Disability Rights?, the author introduces the topic of disability rights through case studies. The author explains the "social model of disability" in … | Deborah Stienstra | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
From ![]() Who Stays Healthy? Who Gets Sick? |
- | Dennis Raphael | 25 | 2016 | $2.50 Add |
From ![]() Inequalities in HealthFrom: Health and Wealth |
An overview of the health of the Canadian population in the late 1990s, and the impact on health of income, education, poverty, race, housing conditions, and unemployment. Aboriginal health … | 56 | $5.60 Add | ||
From ![]() Living Conditions, Stress and the Human Body |
- | Dennis Raphael | 21 | 2016 | $2.10 Add |
From ![]() People and Policies in Search of Disability Rights |
Chapter two, People and Policies in Search of Disability Rights, explains how the concept of disability rights emerged in Canada, from scholarship and activism against sterilization, and … | Deborah Stienstra | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
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 |
From ![]() Taking Care of the Bottom LineShifting Paradigms in Hospital Management From: Care and Consequences |
- | Doris Grinspun | 24 | 2000 | $2.64 Add |