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 who decides (public, private, and patients). |
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Page 150
... clear whether these commitments are being or will be respected . Since the introduction of medicare , the primary funding for core health- care services has come from general tax revenues . Two provinces ( British Columbia and Alberta ) ...
... clear whether these commitments are being or will be respected . Since the introduction of medicare , the primary funding for core health- care services has come from general tax revenues . Two provinces ( British Columbia and Alberta ) ...
Page 170
... clear , ' Working directly with business requires a big change in the cul- ture of the organization.'139 The new culture could put a stress on profits over people and care , as we have seen is the case in the drug industry . The vice ...
... clear , ' Working directly with business requires a big change in the cul- ture of the organization.'139 The new culture could put a stress on profits over people and care , as we have seen is the case in the drug industry . The vice ...
Page 192
... clear , concise information that fully informs the reader . It is designed mainly to sell goods and services , not to educate and warn of risks.51 Research in the United States indicates the same emphasis on advertising in the American ...
... clear , concise information that fully informs the reader . It is designed mainly to sell goods and services , not to educate and warn of risks.51 Research in the United States indicates the same emphasis on advertising in the American ...
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