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 46
... Institutions These problematic assumptions of the medical model are reflected in the way health - care institutions are organized . Public funding of health institutions and services has primarily served to support and reinforce ...
... Institutions These problematic assumptions of the medical model are reflected in the way health - care institutions are organized . Public funding of health institutions and services has primarily served to support and reinforce ...
Page 86
... institutions into other residential care facilities or into the community . This deinstitutionalization strategy is , of course , not new . When the move towards deinstitutionalization began in the psychiatric hospitals in the early ...
... institutions into other residential care facilities or into the community . This deinstitutionalization strategy is , of course , not new . When the move towards deinstitutionalization began in the psychiatric hospitals in the early ...
Page 87
... institutions too often receive more chemicals and have less freedom and less time to discuss their problems . As was the case when deinstitutionalization began in the early seventies , governments are increasing- ly talking about care ...
... institutions too often receive more chemicals and have less freedom and less time to discuss their problems . As was the case when deinstitutionalization began in the early seventies , governments are increasing- ly talking about care ...
Contents
The Wasting Away of Care | 1 |
The Development of Canadian Health Care | 12 |
The Institutions | 46 |
Copyright | |
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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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