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  • Where to from Here?

    Keeping Medicare Sustainable

    by Stephen Duckett ...
    Series Book 161 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    Universal healthcare, perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Canada's public policy, is under fire, criticized for its heavy expense and questionable sustainability. In Where to From Here?: Keeping Medicare Sustainable, Stephen Duckett defends Canadian Medicare, addressing key concerns and refuting criticism, while also acknowledging flaws in the system and room for improvement.Duckett argues ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Healthcare Funding and Christian Ethics

    by Stephen Duckett ...
    Series series New Studies in Christian Ethics
    Healthcare has an impact on everyone, and healthcare funding decisions shape how and what healthcare is provided. In this book, Stephen Duckett outlines a Christian, biblically grounded, ethical basis for how decisions about healthcare funding and priority-setting ought to be made. Taking a cue from the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37), Duckett articulates three ethical principles ... Read more

    $112.79 CAD

  • Where to from Here?

    Keeping Medicare Sustainable

    by Stephen Duckett ...
    Series Book 161 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    Universal healthcare, perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Canada's public policy, is under fire, criticized for its heavy expense and questionable sustainability. In Where to From Here?: Keeping Medicare Sustainable, Stephen Duckett defends Canadian Medicare, addressing key concerns and refuting criticism, while also acknowledging flaws in the system and room for improvement.Duckett argues ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Operations Research for Health Planning and Administration

    by Stephen J. Duckett ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Operations research aims to assist managers faced with problems of coordinating activities; improving the quality of care of services delivered; making optimal resource allocation decisions and generally, managing services and institutions. Operations research (or O.R.) was originally developed in response to the problems of the second World War. It was characterised then by a unifying and clear ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Canadian Medicare

    We Need It and We Can Keep It

    by Stephen Duckett, Adrian Peetoom ...
    Medicare has been a crucial part of Canadian identity for nearly fifty years, and it stands in marked contrast to the US health system. But these facts alone do not protect it from dismissive swipes and criticisms, claims that the system is unsustainable, and even proposals to change medicare's fundamentals. In Canadian Medicare, Stephen Duckett and Adrian Peetoom show that the shared values ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Canadian Medicare

    We Need It and We Can Keep It

    by Stephen Duckett, Adrian Peetoom ...
    Medicare has been a crucial part of Canadian identity for nearly fifty years, and it stands in marked contrast to the US health system. But these facts alone do not protect it from dismissive swipes and criticisms, claims that the system is unsustainable, and even proposals to change medicare’s fundamentals. In Canadian Medicare, Stephen Duckett and Adrian Peetoom show that the shared values ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?

    by Sara Allin, Sarah Barry, Sara Burke, Danielle Dawson, Lorraine Frisina Doetter, Stephen Duckett, Noushon Farmanara, Vanessa Gruben, Jeremiah Hurley, Martha Jackman, Bridget Johnston, Gregory P. Marchildon, Fiona McDonald, Rachel McKay, Jonathan Mullen, Zeynep Or, Aurélie Pierre, Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, David Rudoler, Achim Schmid, Rikke Siersbaek, Stephen Thomas, Carolyn Hughes Tuohy ...
    Series series Law, Technology and Media
    Canadians are deeply worried about wait times for health care. Entrepreneurial doctors and private clinics are bringing Charter challenges to existing laws restrictive of a two-tier system. They argue that Canada is an outlier among developed countries in limiting options to jump the queue.This book explores whether a two-tier model is a solution.In Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?, leading ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Good News About Marriage

    Debunking Discouraging Myths about Marriage and Divorce

    by Shaunti Feldhahn ...
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  • At Risk

    Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services

    by Karen Swift, Marilyn Callahan ...
    In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned and unstudied and that current methods of risk assessment may be distorting the principles of social ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Sociology in Nursing and Healthcare E-Book

    Sociology in Nursing and Healthcare E-Book

    by Hannah Cooke ...
    This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Nursing practice needs to be informed by an understanding of people and the societies in which they live. This introductory text has been designed specifically to discuss those aspects of sociology which are most relevant to nursing and the health care context in which it takes place.•A user-friendly ... Read more

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  • Guide to Nursing's Social Policy Statement

    Understanding the Profession from Social Contract to Social Covenant

    by Marsha Fowler ...
    Nursing is often called a helping profession: Nursing’s Social Policy Statement is about the many ways that nursing helps others. It is about the relationship—the social contract—between the nursing profession and society and their reciprocal expectations. This arrangement authorizes nurses as professionals to meet the needs involved in the care, and health of patients and clients and the health ... Read more

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