Treating Health Care - How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better

Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber introduces the reader to the facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and to evaluate how we might want to reform our health care system.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Health Care in Canada: What Works? What Needs to Be Done?
1 Defining Our Terms: What Is Health Policy? What Is Health?
2 What Is Health Care?
3 How Is Health Care Paid For and Delivered?
4 How Does Canada Do It?
5 Health Care in Canada: International Comparisons
6 How Should We Decide What Is Worth Paying For?
7 Pressing Issues
8 Treating Health Care: How Can We Make It Better? What Might Make It Worse?
Notes
Index

About the author

By Raisa B. Deber

Summary

Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber introduces the reader to the facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and to evaluate how we might want to reform our health care system.

Product details

• Authors: Raisa Deber, Raisa B. Deber
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781487521493
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-2149-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: UTP Insights; UTP Insights
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General