Product Description: Health care is Canada s best-loved social program and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of problems with the system...read more

Product Description: This is a provocative book that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. It examines the development of the system and breaks the analysis down into two accessible units.

Product Description: Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results in a division among workers in ways that undermine care...read more

Product Description: This unique work assembles in a readily accessible format an enormous amount of research in the areas of health and health care, within a broadly defined political economy framework. Divided into three sections, it covers homecare, globalization, and the comparisons between the Canadian system and the British National Health Service; research in health services, women, and the pharmaceutical industry; and environmental contamination and poverty...read more

Product Description: The preoccupation with rising expenditures has given rise to market-based strategies in the reform of health care in the West. There has been little research into the efficacy of such commercial thinking in health care provision. This book assesses the major claims of health management in the profit and non-profit sectors...read more

Looks at the Canadian system of health care, examining the five principles at the core of the system

Product Description: Take Care: Warning Signals for Canada's Health System examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particulary women...read more

Product Description: Book by Armstrong, Pat, Armstrong, Hugh (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)