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 106
... workers , that is not the view or experience of the workers themselves . In his study of workers in an Ontario hospital , White found that the women who did the cleaning and dietary work defined themselves as health - care workers and ...
... workers , that is not the view or experience of the workers themselves . In his study of workers in an Ontario hospital , White found that the women who did the cleaning and dietary work defined themselves as health - care workers and ...
Page 197
... workers in the health - care sector have joined together to make gains in terms of choices . The overwhelming majority of these other workers are women . Largely because of their gender , it was assumed both that they worked for love ...
... workers in the health - care sector have joined together to make gains in terms of choices . The overwhelming majority of these other workers are women . Largely because of their gender , it was assumed both that they worked for love ...
Page 199
... workers and greater variety in their work , as well as provide more time for more integrated care . But this kind of deregulation in both professions and job classifications also opens the door to fewer choices for some workers and to ...
... workers and greater variety in their work , as well as provide more time for more integrated care . But this kind of deregulation in both professions and job classifications also opens the door to fewer choices for some workers and to ...
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