Health Care: A Community Concern?

Developments in the Organization of Canadian Health Services

By Anne Crichton, Ann Robertson, and Christine Gordon
Edited by Wendy Farrant
Categories: Health, Social Work & Psychology, Health & Medicine, Political Science, Public & Social Policy
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9781552383612, 432 pages, June 2013
Paperback : 9781895176841, 432 pages, April 1997

Description

Developed within the context of the expansion of the Canadian welfare state in the years following the Great Depression, the present organization of Canadian health care delivery is now in serious need of reform. This book documents the causes and effects of changes made in this century to Canada's health care policy. Particular emphasis is placed on the decades following 1940, the years in which Canada moved away from an individualistic entrepreneurial medical care system, first toward a collectivist biomedical model and then to a social model for health care.