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  • Failing Health

    The Rise and Fall of Canada's Health Care System

    by Stephen R. Barron, Stephen R. Barron, Gary Morrissey ...
    Do you believe Canada’s health care system is working as well as it should be?Despite having a publicly funded health care system, Canadians have suffered for years from a shortage of family doctors, excessively long wait times for specialists and investigations, overcrowded emergency departments, and “hallway medicine” in our hospitals.It wasn’t always like this.After over 40 years as a front ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Realities of Canadian Nursing

    Professional, Practice, and Power Issues

    by Carol McDonald, Marjorie McIntyre ...
    In Realities of Canadian Nursing, influential scholars throughout Canada give voice to the unheard concerns of nurses and go to great lengths to ensure the text offers readers more than an update on current and pressing professional, legal, ethical, political, social, economic, and environmental issues in nursing and healthcare. In chapter 1 of the text, authors Carol McDonald PhD, RN and Marjorie ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Health Promotion

    A Practical Guide to Effective Communication

    Edited by Merryn McKinnon ...
    Health Promotion: A Practical Guide to Effective Communication introduces students to the fundamental principles of health promotion in Australian and international public health contexts. Combining the core principles and theories of health promotion with those of effective communication, the text guides readers through the practical steps of planning, implementing and evaluating programs that ... Read more

    $68.09 USD

  • An Abundance of Caution

    American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions

    by David Zweig ...
    A searing indictment of the American public health, media, and political establishments’ decision-making process behind pandemic school closures.An Abundance of Caution is a devastating account of the decision-making process behind one of the worst American policy failures in a century—the extended closures of public schools during the pandemic. In fascinating and meticulously reported detail, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Covid Consensus

    The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor?A Critique from the Left

    by Toby Green, Thomas Fazi ...
    During the first years of the pandemic, the political mainstream agreed that 'following the science' with hard lockdowns and vaccine mandates was the best way to preserve life. But social science reveals the true human cost of this policy. The Covid Consensus provides an internationalist-left perspective on the world's Covid-19 response, which has had devastating consequences for democratic rights ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Understanding the Australian Health Care System - E-Book

    by Eileen Willis ...
    A updated overview of Australia's health care system, addressing its core features, concepts and issues Understanding the Australian Health Care System, 2nd edition is an excellent university book for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike. Published four years after the original, this second edition has been fully revised to reflect major Australian health care reform. Its fully up-to-date ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice

    Edited by Ichiro Kawachi, Iain Lang, Walter Ricciardi ...
    Series series Oxford Medical Handbooks
    Fully revised and updated for the fourth edition, the award-winning Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for practitioners in the field. Structured into practical sections addressed towards professional competencies and translating evidence into policy, this Handbook provides concise summaries and covers real issues from across the globe, providing a world of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Health and Health Care Delivery in Canada - E-Book

    Health and Health Care Delivery in Canada - E-Book

    by Valerie D. Thompson ...
    Get the big picture on the past, present, and future of the Canadian health care system! The only text of its kind, Health and Health Care Delivery in Canada, 4th Edition helps to prepare you for a career as a health care professional in Canada. Content includes topics such as population health initiatives, the determinants of health, the role of federal agencies and provincial governments, health ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Healthier

    Fifty Thoughts on the Foundations of Population Health

    by Sandro Galea ...
    Fifty essays on the state of population health from a vanguard voice in the field Public health can rightly claim its share of victories: healthier cities, widespread sanitation, broader availability of nutrient-rich food, and reductions in violence and injury. But for all these gains, today we face a new set of challenges, ones complicated by political and professional shifts that threaten to ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • 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

  • Organisational Capacity Building in Health Systems

    by Niyi Awofeso ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    Capacity building – which focuses on understanding the obstacles that prevent organisations from realising their goals, while promoting those features that help them to achieve measurable and sustainable results – is vital to improve the delivery of health care in both developed and developing countries. Organisations are important structural building blocks of health systems because they provide ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Too Critical to Fail

    How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure

    by Ben Bisset, Bryan Mills, Kevin Quigley ...
    In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk ... Read more

    $36.99 USD