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  • Alberta

    A Health System Profile

    by John Church, Neale Smith ...
    Series series Provincial and Territorial Health System Profiles
    Alberta: A Health System Profile provides the first detailed description of Alberta’s health care system and the underpinning political and social forces that have shaped it. Drawing on significant wealth from government revenues generated through the energy sector, Alberta has been able to develop an extensive public health and health care infrastructure.Alberta has used its financial resources ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Making Health Policy

    by Kent Buse, Nicholas Mays, Gill Walt ...
    Used across the public health field, this is the leading text in the area, focusing on the context, participants and processes of making health policy. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • About Canada: Health Care, 2nd ed.

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    Series Book 10 - About Canada
    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. We are bombarded with warnings that public health care is unsustainable, especially in light of the baby boomer generation reaching retirement ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Treating Health Care

    How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better

    by Raisa Deber ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    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 ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Covid-19 and Capitalism

    Success and Failure of the Legal Methods for Dealing with a Pandemic

    by Koen Byttebier ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Covid-19. From the end of 2019 until presently, the world has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the cause of this is (obviously) a virus, the extent to which this virus spread, and therefore the number of infections and deaths, was largely determined by socio-economic factors. From this, it ... Read more

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  • Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management, Second Edition

    Edited by Catherine L. Mah, Raisa B. Deber ...
    Covering a wide range of issues, the 22 cases included in Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management constitute an exceptional resource for bringing real-life policy questions into the classroom. Based on actual events, the cases have been developed with input from mid-career professionals with strong field experience and extensively tested in Raisa B. Deber’s graduate case study ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Global Health Law

    by Lawrence O. Gostin ...
    The international community has made great progress in improving global health. But staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still remain, raising fundamental questions of social justice. In a book that systematically defines the burgeoning field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective global governance for health and offers a blueprint for reform, ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Governing Global Health

    Who Runs the World and Why?

    by Chelsea Clinton, Devi Sridhar ...
    The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health organizations. These organizations may be national, regional, international, or even non-state organizations-like Medicins Sans Frontieres ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Profit Is Not the Cure

    A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare

    by Maude Barlow ...
    On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons after a ferocious public debate that pitted the vast majority of Canadians against a powerful alliance of business, insurance companies, and doctors.More than thirty years later, the same battle is being fought all over again. Only now, the forces opposed to medicare are more ideologically unified, more ... Read more

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  • Getting Health Reform Right

    A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity

    by Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, Michael Reich ...
    This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Metrics

    What Counts in Global Health

    by Vincanne Adams ...
    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program's fiscal support, the contributors question the ability of metrics to solve global health problems. They capture a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD