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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Page 86
... allowed people to leave the institutions . Second , the move would allow people to become more independent , to live more dignified lives , and to be better integrated into the community . Third , it was what people wanted . Fourth , it ...
... allowed people to leave the institutions . Second , the move would allow people to become more independent , to live more dignified lives , and to be better integrated into the community . Third , it was what people wanted . Fourth , it ...
Page 112
... allow no time for chat , no time for encouragement - in other words , no time for care . Bathing is reduced to a minimum physical task and not enough time is allowed for even that . In interviews in Quebec , BC , and Ontario , health ...
... allow no time for chat , no time for encouragement - in other words , no time for care . Bathing is reduced to a minimum physical task and not enough time is allowed for even that . In interviews in Quebec , BC , and Ontario , health ...
Page 189
... allow competition . At all levels of government there is a new emphasis on evidence - based decision - making as a means of ensuring both appropriate expenditures and accountability . The National Forum on Health quoted with approval a ...
... allow competition . At all levels of government there is a new emphasis on evidence - based decision - making as a means of ensuring both appropriate expenditures and accountability . The National Forum on Health quoted with approval a ...
Contents
The Wasting Away of Care | 1 |
The Development of Canadian Health Care | 12 |
The Institutions | 46 |
Copyright | |
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Other editions - View all
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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Aging/La Revue Canadienne Armstrong assumptions Canada Health Act Canadian Health Canadian Journal Canadienne du Vieillissement caregivers cent Centre choices CIHI clinics CLSCS costs cure cutbacks David Coburn decision-making defined determinants of health developed disabled doctors drugs Elderly eliminated emphasis employees expenditures focus for-profit formula Forum on Health funding Globe and Mail groups Health Canada Health Care Reform Health Services health-care system health-care workers hospital Hugh Armstrong Ibid impact improve increasing increasingly individual institutions Journal on Aging/La labour less long-term means medical model medicare Medicine Moreover National Forum non-profit Ontario Ontario Nurses Association organizations Ottawa patients physicians Policy practices Premier's Council Press problems provinces Quebec reduce Registered Nurses result risk sector skills spending Statistics Canada strategies tasks Technology tion Toronto Star total quality management treatment University women Women's College Hospital