Product Description: With increasing demands for evidence-based decision-making, the academic community must be ready to train researchers who can reduce the gap between health care research and practice. One program dedicated to promoting such training is the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF, now the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement) and Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Chair Program...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: Exploring a service too often viewed as a necessary evil best left invisible, this study takes on the sensitive topic of long-term residential care. Based on an understanding of what exists today, this breakthrough survey takes a different approach by theorizing about developing alternative forms for the future...read more

Product Description: As access to sufficient health care continues to become a dominant—and divisive—issue in the world today, this resource acts as a primer to the public health care system Canada has had in place for the last 30 years. While explaining the program's cost efficiency and dramatically better health outcomes compared with the United States' private health care system, it also addresses the complexities of the program, as well as the aspects that need improvement—such as wait times and the aging boomer generation...read more

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 manual is aimed at groupwork facilitators working with men, particularly in welfare and justice contexts such has: youth and community work, social work, youth offending, prisons and probation. It contains exercises that are designed to: unlock doorways to better self knowledge and understanding; encourage the sharing of experiences with others; and offer a range of life skill tools which promote self-acceptance and increase inner confidence...read more

Product Description: This book exposes the many faces of health care privatization and its impact on women. It begins with the international context for health care reform and then moves from coast to coast, setting out what is known about the reforms that are underway and about their impact on women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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

Product Description: Feminist struggles have targeted corporate capital, male-dominated social, however, has provided the most substantial focus. The public sector is an employer of great numbers of women; women are the largest consumers of state services; the state regulates both the capitalist economy and the private household; struggle with the state has brought about any change that is favourable to women's lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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

Product Description: Book by Konieczka, Richard

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: Nursing Work has been transformed by political economy and women's struggle. From earliest times, the state established the power of male allopathic practitioners and since the post-war years extended their authority. This served to encourage the collective resistance of many women, who have made significant gains for themselves and for users of the health care system...read more

Product Description: Detailed arguments herald a warning to the working women of Canada.

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