Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health CareWasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. It examines the development of the Canadian health care system, and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and whodecides (public, private, and patients). |
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Contents
The Wasting Away of Care | 1 |
The Development of Canadian Health Care | 12 |
The Institutions | 46 |
Copyright | |
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Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care Pat Armstrong,Hugh Armstrong Snippet view - 1996 |
Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care Pat Armstrong,Hugh Armstrong No preview available - 2010 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care |
| Authors | Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong |
| Edition | 2, illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 1 Jun 2010 |
| ISBN | 0195417151, 9780195417159 |
| Length | 272 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Social Work |
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