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). |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 74
Page 43
... individual lifestyle . Personal habits such as drinking , smoking , exercise , and diet were stressed . While later ... individual . Fourth , it promotes an ideology of individual responsibility rather than of collective responsibility ...
... individual lifestyle . Personal habits such as drinking , smoking , exercise , and diet were stressed . While later ... individual . Fourth , it promotes an ideology of individual responsibility rather than of collective responsibility ...
Page 145
... individual families or they may never strike any individuals or families ; but we know from experience that , collec- tively speaking , these problems or needs are always present at some place in the community or among the population.1 ...
... individual families or they may never strike any individuals or families ; but we know from experience that , collec- tively speaking , these problems or needs are always present at some place in the community or among the population.1 ...
Page 178
... individuals and employers . As a result , the costs for both employers and individual Canadians increase . Those employers who provide health care pay more for labour than those who do not . And individuals with the ability to pay have ...
... individuals and employers . As a result , the costs for both employers and individual Canadians increase . Those employers who provide health care pay more for labour than those who do not . And individuals with the ability to pay have ...
Contents
The Wasting Away of Care | 1 |
The Development of Canadian Health Care | 12 |
The Institutions | 46 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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