Universal Health Care

Universal Health Care

Author: Pat Armstrong

Publisher:

Published: 1999-03

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781565845152

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A powerful argument for a new health-care system.


Health Systems in Transition Third Edition

Health Systems in Transition Third Edition

Author: Gregory P. Marchildon

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2021-04-21

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1487508085

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This book provides insight into how the Canadian health care system is financed and organized, how it has evolved over time, and how well it performs relative to peer countries.


Treating Health Care

Treating Health Care

Author: Raisa Deber

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1487513461

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Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context. An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions that help us understand and diagnose Canada’s health care system and to clarify which proposed changes are likely to improve it - and which are not. This book provides background information to clarify such concepts as: determinants of health; how health systems are organized and financed (including international comparisons); health economics; health ethics; and roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders, including government, providers, and patients. It then addresses some key issues, including equity, efficiency, access and wait times, quality improvement and patient safety, and coverage and payment models. Using analysis rather than advocacy, Deber provides a toolkit to help understand health care and health policy.


Public Health and Preventive Health Care in Canada

Public Health and Preventive Health Care in Canada

Author: Bonnie Fournier

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2020-02-26

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1771722169

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Work more effectively with a complete understanding of Canadian public health! Shah's Public Health and Preventive Health Care in Canada, Sixth Edition examines health care policy in Canada and the issues and trends faced by today's health care professionals. It puts health promotion and prevention models into a historical perspective, with discussions including the evolution of national health insurance, determinants of health and disease, and approaches to achieving health for all. Written by educators Bonnie Fournier and Fareen Karachiwalla, and based on the work of noted author Dr. Chandrakant Shah, this text provides an excellent foundation in Canadian public health for nurses and other health care professionals. - Quintessentially Canadian content is designed especially for Canadian nursing and health care professionals. - Comprehensive coverage includes in-depth, current information on public health and preventive care topics. - End-of-chapter summaries reinforce your understanding of key health care concepts. - End-of-chapter references provide recommendations for further reading and research. - NEW! Full-colour design enhances illustrations and improves readability to better illustrate complex concepts. - NEW! Indigenous Health chapter. - NEW! Groups Experiencing Health Inequities chapter. - NEW! Pan-Canadian focus uses a community health perspective, discussing the social determinants of health, health equity, and health promotion in each chapter. - NEW! Learning tools include chapter outlines and learning objectives, key terms, practical exercises, critical thinking questions, and summary boxes such as Case Study, Research Perspective, In the News, Interprofessional Practice, Clinical Example, Real World Example, and Evidence-Informed Practice, plus key websites. - NEW! Evolve companion website. - NEW! Emerging infectious diseases (EID) and COVID-19 discussion and exercises on Evolve, offer insight into current and developing challenges facing public health.


Parting at the Crossroads

Parting at the Crossroads

Author: Antonia Maioni

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0691221286

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As almost all newspaper or magazine readers know, Canada figured prominently in the turbulent U.S. debates over health care reform in the early Clinton presidency. Furthermore, future news analysts and policymakers will undoubtedly again use Canada to cite the "good" and the "bad" aspects of single-payer national health insurance. Beyond the debate about the desirability of Canadian-style health care reforms, Antonia Maioni sees another question: Why did the United States and Canada, alike in so many ways, part "at the crossroads" to produce such different systems of health insurance? She answers this previously neglected query so interestingly that her book will hold the attention of anyone concerned with health care in either country or both. The author explores the development of health insurance in the United States and Canada, from the emergence of health care as a political issue in the 1930s to the passage of federal health insurance legislation in the 1960s. Focusing on how political institutions influence policy development, she shows that Canada's federal structure and its parliamentary institutions encouraged a social-democratic third party that became pivotal in demonstrating the feasibility of universal, public health insurance. Meanwhile, the constraints of the U.S. political system forced health care reformers to temper their own ideas to appeal to a wide coalition within the Democratic party. Even readers previously unfamiliar with Canadian politics will find in this book important clues about the "realm of the possible" in the uncertain future of U.S. health care.


The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution

The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution

Author: Peter Crawford Oliver

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 1169

ISBN-13: 0190664819

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The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution provides an ideal first stop for Canadians and non-Canadians seeking a clear, concise, and authoritative account of Canadian constitutional law. The Handbook is divided into six parts: Constitutional History, Institutions and Constitutional Change, Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Constitution, Federalism, Rights and Freedoms, and Constitutional Theory. Readers of this Handbook will discover some of the distinctive features of the Canadian constitution: for example, the importance of Indigenous peoples and legal systems, the long-standing presence of a French-speaking population, French civil law and Quebec, the British constitutional heritage, the choice of federalism, as well as the newer features, most notably the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section Thirty-Five regarding Aboriginal rights and treaties, and the procedures for constitutional amendment. The Handbook provides a remarkable resource for comparativists at a time when the Canadian constitution is a frequent topic of constitutional commentary. The Handbook offers a vital account of constitutional challenges and opportunities at the time of the 150th anniversary of Confederation.


Caring for Profit

Caring for Profit

Author: Colleen Fuller

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780921586593

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Caring For Profit traces how Canada's $77 billion a year health care industry is turning away from its original mandate of providing the best possible medical care to Canadians, and how multinational capital is forcing its way into our non'profit health care system. In Caring For Profit, Colleen Fuller traces alliances that were struck between private insurers and the medical profession during the 1950s and 1960s to defeat "socialized medicine". These alliances survived the establishment of medicare in Canada in 1968, and have been strengthened by new forces emerging in an era of globalization. Instead of a health care system focused on providing the highest quality of care to the greatest number of Canadians, the system is increasingly dominated by financial giants more concerned with consolidations, mergers, acquisitions, and higher profit margins. Caring for Profit is a "who's who" of key people and corporations making money in Canada's health care sector ? and a portrait of the strategies and alliances that threaten to replace the principles of medicare with the dictates of the stock market.


Medicare

Medicare

Author: Monique Bégin

Publisher: Optimum Publishing International

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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