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 69
... kinds of tasks or provide the kinds of support these short - stay patients require . While most care was provided at home in the nineteenth century by women , the care that families were expected to provide was food , shelter , some ...
... kinds of tasks or provide the kinds of support these short - stay patients require . While most care was provided at home in the nineteenth century by women , the care that families were expected to provide was food , shelter , some ...
Page 102
... kinds of prestige enjoyed by doctors.29 The rapid growth in medical science and in the health - care workforce , combined with new man- agerial techniques , has encouraged this emphasis . FRAGMENTATION OF NURSING WORK The enormous ...
... kinds of prestige enjoyed by doctors.29 The rapid growth in medical science and in the health - care workforce , combined with new man- agerial techniques , has encouraged this emphasis . FRAGMENTATION OF NURSING WORK The enormous ...
Page 124
... kinds of medications or insert a catheter . While some of these restrictions were primarily about maintaining power , many of them reflected and reinforced a particular approach to care . The restrictions were based on the assumption of ...
... kinds of medications or insert a catheter . While some of these restrictions were primarily about maintaining power , many of them reflected and reinforced a particular approach to care . The restrictions were based on the assumption of ...
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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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