Closer to Home: Report of the British Columbia Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs. 1991
Author: British Columbia Royal Commission on Health Care and Costs
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Published: 1991
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Continuing Care Renewal or Retreat? BC Residential and Home Health Restructuring 2001-2004
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Publisher: Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 0886274133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt reviews the actual changes in the number of beds and services available to seniors and people with disabilities using sources from the Ministry of Health, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, other provinces, and the regional health authorities themselves. [...] The commission argued that by shifting resources from institutional and acute care to the community, and by focusing on health promotion and early intervention strategies, individual health status could be improved and health care costs controlled.2 The reality of the closer to home strategy has not, however, always kept pace with the government's rhetoric and the funding has rarely "followed the [...] The first section examines the overall context in which the restructuring of residential and home health care services is occurring: that is, the reduction in the availability of acute care beds and changes in population demographics. [...] Access to available long-term care beds is lower than the provincial average when measured relative to population and access to available home support, From 2001 to December 2004, and home care is the lowest in the province."15 there was a net closure of 26 Similarly, the undersupply of residential care and assisted living units residential care facilities, in the Capital Regional District (i.e. [...] However, the provincial government's decision to promote the substitution of assisted living beds for residential care beds was based on another assumption: that the costs of assisted living to the health authorities would be about half as much as Although the discussion is residential care.20 In The Picture of Health (2002) the provincial government framed in terms of the benefits states that its.
Health Care
Author: Anne Crichton
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1895176840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeveloped within the context of the expansion of the Canadian welfare state in the years following the Great Depression, the present organization of Canadian health care delivery is now in serious need of reform. This book documents the causes and effects of changes made in this century to Canada's health care policy. Particular emphasis is placed on the decades following 1940, the years in which Canada moved away from an individualistic entrepreneurial medical care system, first toward a collectivist biomedical model and then to a social model for health care.
Health and Canadian Society
Author: David Coburn
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9780802080523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHealth and Canadian Society provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between health, health care, and Canadian society. It is a wide-ranging volume that moves from personal and micro concerns to a more macro and institutional focus. It includes chapters of a descriptive nature and others with a more explanatory intent. They have been selected from the major journals or have been expressly written for this book. Ninety-five percent of the contributions are new to this edition. The chapters and the studies reported on are methodologically diverse, ranging from ethnographic studies to statistical analyses of data from large national surveys. Though the chapters are written by anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, and physicians, as well as sociologists, they all have a sociological "turn." Recognized as the standard textbook on the sociology of health in Canada, Health and Canadian Society is an essential reference for sociologists, health care providers, health administrators, and policy planners.
Almost Home
Author: Patricia M. Baranek
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780802086396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile Medicare continues to resist political and ideological forces aimed at shrinking the state's role, cost constraints, demographic pressures and technological advancements are increasing pressure on home and community care.
Health Systems in Transition
Author: Gregory P. Marchildon
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0802094007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe health care system in Canada is much-touted in the international sphere, but often overlooked when it comes to an examination of its actual administration and regulation. Health Systems in Transition: Canada provides an objective description and analysis of the public, private, and mixed components that make up health care in Canada today. Published in co-operation with the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Gregory P. Marchildon's study offers a statistical and visual description of the many facets of Canadian health care financing, administration, and service delivery. This study's most distinctive feature is a comparative description and analysis. For international comparison, five other countries have been selected: The United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden. Because public health care administration and delivery is highly decentralized in Canada, Marchildon also analyzes the important health status and health care features within Canada by province and territory, and describes in some detail the unique constitutional, jurisdictional, and financial features of the Canadian system. Balancing careful assessment, summary, and illustration, Health Systems in Transition: Canada is a thorough and illuminating look at one of the nation's most complex institutions.
Politics, Policy, and Government in British Columbia
Author: R. Kenneth Carty
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 1996-09-23
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0774853654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitics, Policy, and Government in British Columbia examines the political life of Canada's dynamic Pacific province. Each of the seventeen chapters, written by well-known experts, provides an up-to-date portrait and analysis of one of the many faces of B.C. politics. Taken together they provide a clear and comprehensive overview of the dominant themes and issues that have been the distinguishing features of the province's political life. Key elements of the book include sections on: the political setting, with discussions of BC's political culture and economy, and its relations with the rest of Canada and its own Native communities; B.C.-style politics, which focus on electoral and parliamentary party politics, the changing place of women in BC public life, and the critical role of the media in explaining it all to British Columbians; governing the province, with accounts of the premier and cabinet, the bureaucracy that delivers most government services, and the complex system -- from the police to the courts -- that provides the administration of justice and the rule of law; and contemporary policy issues, with clear explanations of the intricacies of fiscal and social policy, analyses of recent conflicts over forest policy and environmental protection, a discussion of the role of lobbyists, and an examination of what difference is made when NDP governments are elected. Anyone interested in B.C. or its politics will find this book an informative, up-to-date record of the processes and events that have marked B.C.'s past and will continue to shape its future.
A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics
Author: Harold Coward
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0889208557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ethical theories employed in health care today assume, in the main, a modern Western philosophical framework. Yet the diversity of cultural and religious assumptions regarding human nature, health and illness, life and death, and the status of the individual suggest that a cross-cultural study of health care ethics is needed. A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics provides this study. It shows that ethical questions can be resolved by examining the ethical principles present in each culture, critically assessing each value, and identifying common values found within all traditions, It encourages the development of global awareness and sensitivity to and respect for the diversity of peoples and their values and will advance understanding as well as help to foster a greater balance and a fuller truth in consideration of the human condition and what makes for health and wholeness.
Coasts Under Stress
Author: Rosemary E. Ommer
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2007-08-08
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0773576010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRosemary Ommer and her project team combine formal scientific (natural and social) and humanist analysis with an examination of the lived experience of coastal people. They analyze community erosion created by economic decline and the ecosystem damage caused by unrelenting industrial pressure on natural resources and look at the history of coastal communities, their resource bases, their economies, and the way the lives of people are embedded in their environments.
The Privatization of Care
Author: Pat Armstrong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 100065060X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US and Canada have been searching for promising practices that treat residents, families and staff with dignity and respect in ways that can also bring joy. While we did find ideas worth sharing, we also saw a disturbing trend toward privatization. Privatization is the process of moving away not only from public delivery and public payment for health services but also from a commitment to shared responsibility, democratic decision-making, and the idea that the public sector operates according to a logic of service to all. This book documents moves toward privatization in the six countries and their consequences for families, staff, residents, and, eventually, us all. None of the countries has escaped pressure from powerful forces in and outside government pushing for privatization in all its forms. However, the wide variations in the extent and nature of privatization indicate privatization is not inevitable and our research shows there are alternatives.
