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 whodecides (public, private, and patients). |
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Page 17
... prevention of disease . . . . It is time to change this focus . Increased spending on hospitals , equipment or health care will not necessarily improve health status . More money should be spent on prevention of illness or injury and on ...
... prevention of disease . . . . It is time to change this focus . Increased spending on hospitals , equipment or health care will not necessarily improve health status . More money should be spent on prevention of illness or injury and on ...
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... prevention and promotion , defined as a way of maintaining health outside the curative system . As is the case with curables and incurables , the line between prevention and cure is not so easily drawn . Diabetes can be treated but not ...
... prevention and promotion , defined as a way of maintaining health outside the curative system . As is the case with curables and incurables , the line between prevention and cure is not so easily drawn . Diabetes can be treated but not ...
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... prevention.138 The Lalonde Report did not critique the assumptions of the curative approach in terms of determinants of health . Rather , it set up prevention as an additional and complementary approach . Prevention was primarily ...
... prevention.138 The Lalonde Report did not critique the assumptions of the curative approach in terms of determinants of health . Rather , it set up prevention as an additional and complementary approach . Prevention was primarily ...
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