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 59
... continued to charge for the limited number of services not covered by the fee - for - service plan . The number of such services has been increasing in recent years , however , as governments remove some procedures from their billing ...
... continued to charge for the limited number of services not covered by the fee - for - service plan . The number of such services has been increasing in recent years , however , as governments remove some procedures from their billing ...
Page 149
... continued to allow for growth and to equalize payments among provinces . It also expanded the def- inition of health services to include other kinds of care . No new services were specifically addressed , however . The Canada Health Act ...
... continued to allow for growth and to equalize payments among provinces . It also expanded the def- inition of health services to include other kinds of care . No new services were specifically addressed , however . The Canada Health Act ...
Page 184
... continued to follow old practices and to include those traditionally in power , little change was made . Doctors and administrators remained the most powerful forces and they continued to operate on the basis of a medical model that ...
... continued to follow old practices and to include those traditionally in power , little change was made . Doctors and administrators remained the most powerful forces and they continued to operate on the basis of a medical model that ...
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