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 108
... sector is necessarily more efficient . Indeed , a great deal of evidence indicates that the American for - profit health - care system is much less efficient and effective than our non - profit one . It serves far fewer people at a much ...
... sector is necessarily more efficient . Indeed , a great deal of evidence indicates that the American for - profit health - care system is much less efficient and effective than our non - profit one . It serves far fewer people at a much ...
Page 164
... sector practices such as TQM and has even hired an American private - sector consulting firm at a cost of $ 4 million to cut costs in the system . Like Hassen's strategy , this approach was to improve quality at the same time as it ...
... sector practices such as TQM and has even hired an American private - sector consulting firm at a cost of $ 4 million to cut costs in the system . Like Hassen's strategy , this approach was to improve quality at the same time as it ...
Page 190
... sector and saleable research . Such priorities can limit choices for both researchers and institutions without significantly improving care or moving away from the medical model . Perhaps most importantly , dramatic cutbacks in funding ...
... sector and saleable research . Such priorities can limit choices for both researchers and institutions without significantly improving care or moving away from the medical model . Perhaps most importantly , dramatic cutbacks in funding ...
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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