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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... drugs on the market before the new rules were introduced were worthless or lacked medical benefit.64 The United States Food and Drug Administration concluded that 40 per cent of the drugs introduced before 1962 that it studied had ' no ...
... drugs on the market before the new rules were introduced were worthless or lacked medical benefit.64 The United States Food and Drug Administration concluded that 40 per cent of the drugs introduced before 1962 that it studied had ' no ...
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... drug firms determine which drugs are brought forward for approval . As one executive sympathetic to the industry put it , ' No manufacturer can afford to restrict his production to genuinely significant pharmaceutical innovations.'76 ...
... drug firms determine which drugs are brought forward for approval . As one executive sympathetic to the industry put it , ' No manufacturer can afford to restrict his production to genuinely significant pharmaceutical innovations.'76 ...
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... drugs for stroke have mostly been done on male rats , too , and young ones at that.'87 Indeed , even research on breast cancer treatments is often done on male mice.88 Similarly , ' the effects of drugs in people over the age of 65 ...
... drugs for stroke have mostly been done on male rats , too , and young ones at that.'87 Indeed , even research on breast cancer treatments is often done on male mice.88 Similarly , ' the effects of drugs in people over the age of 65 ...
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