Health Care
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From  The Douglas Legacy and the Future of MedicareFrom: Medicare |
Discusses Tommy Douglas’s lasting legacy as a political leader through his introduction of universal health care | Greg; Marchildon | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From The Electronic Health Record:The Neglected Key to Saving Medicare From: Medicare |
Examines the Electronic Health Record and its role to play in the realization of first-rate, safe, efficient, and just health care | Steven Lewis | 8 | 2007 | $0.80 Add |
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From  The Elephant in the RoomFrom: The Doctors We Need |
In this chapter, Sanfilippo explores how physician compensation in Canada, particularly through the fee-for-service model under Ontario’sHealth Insurance Plan, creates a misalignment … | Anthony Sanfilippo | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From  The Impact of Canadian Health Care Reform on recent Women Immigrants and RefugeesFrom: Care and Consequences |
Gail J. Donner; Sepali Guruge | 21 | 2000 | $2.31 Add | |
 NEW! The Killer’s HenchmanCapitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster |
Summer 2021, the novel coronavirus is scything through populations worldwide. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announces the Covid-19 pandemic will end “when the world … | Stephen Gowans | 280 | 2022 | View |
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From The Long, Narrow PathFrom: The Doctors We Need |
In this chapter, Sanfilippo examines the evolution of Canadian medical education and the growing shortage of community-based family physicians. | Anthony Sanfilippo | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From The New Wageless WorkerVolunteering and Market-Guided Health Care Reform From: Care and Consequences |
Elizabeth Esteves | 23 | 2000 | $2.53 Add | |
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From  The Policy ChallengeFrom: Health and Wealth |
Public policy proposals for Canada at the turn of the 21st century that would improve the overall levels of health of the population, and reduce illness and disease, by focusing on the social and … | Monica Townson | 36 | 1999 | $3.60 Add |
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From The Struggle — at Home and in the World — for Health Care as a Human RightFrom: Medicare |
discusses the need for social justice and equality in terms of public health and democratic socialism | Stephen Lewis | 13 | 2007 | $1.30 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 The Wrong Kind of Rights:The Charter Threat to Medicare From: Medicare |
Examines the threat that the charter presents to medicare and the people’s place in influencing medicare decisions | Andrew Petter | 7 | 2007 | $0.70 Add |
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From “They Don’t Listen to Your Body”Minority Women, Nurses and Childbirth under Health Reform From: Care and Consequences |
Denise L. Spitzer | 22 | 2000 | $2.42 Add | |
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From  Thinking About Public Policy |
In this chapter, Cowan examines how Canadian public policy operates behind closed doors, focusing on capital gains taxation, national resilience, and nuclear power. | John Scott Cowan | 36 | 2023 | $3.60 Add |
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From  Thoughts on an Anarchist Response to Hepatitis C and HIVFrom: The Care We Dream Of |
Written 5 years ago, and updated for this book, the authors detail how anarchist principles of self-organizing were central for HIV positive and Hepatitis C persons accessing health care, and … | Alexander McClelland | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Transforming Our Political and Economic Systems |
Chapter Eight discusses the need for a transformation of Canada’s political and economic systems to address the social determinants of health and reduce health inequities, highlighting the … | Dennis Raphael | 46 | 2024 | $4.60 Add |
 We Are Not OkayThe Pandemic and Its Consquences |
COVID-19 made almost five million Canadians sick, put hundreds of thousands in hospital, and claimed over 50,000 lives. The numbers are startling yet they don’t begin to capture the … | Dr. Elaine Chin | 101 | 2023 | View |
