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
... 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 provisions based on a medical model . In spite 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 provisions based on a medical model . In spite of the ...
Page 95
... medical model is not only evident in the way institutions are structured . It is also evident in the organization of work . As Torrance makes clear , ' Medical control of hospitals by the 1870s ensured that the occupations that grew up ...
... medical model is not only evident in the way institutions are structured . It is also evident in the organization of work . As Torrance makes clear , ' Medical control of hospitals by the 1870s ensured that the occupations that grew up ...
Page 208
The Undermining of Canadian Health Care Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong. Instead of building a health - care system around these determinants of health , however , we have built a system based on a particular medical model of care . In this ...
The Undermining of Canadian Health Care Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong. Instead of building a health - care system around these determinants of health , however , we have built a system based on a particular medical model of care . In this ...
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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