Better Now - Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians

Zusatztext A  Toronto Star  Canadian Non-Fiction Bestseller A  Toronto Star  Original Non-Fiction Bestseller A  Globe and Mail  Canadian Non-Fiction Bestseller A  Globe and Mail  Hardcover Non-Fiction Bestseller  Longlisted for  British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018 “It's a prescription to improve health care across Canada” — Healthscape “Dr. Martin offers a timely and insightful perspective on Canada’s commitment to providing health care as a right to all people. The U.S. health care system has a great deal to learn from Canada and from  Better Now. ” —U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders   “Universal healthcare is at the very heart of a caring and equitable Canada. Danielle Martin provides us with a practical! accessible and deeply inspiring roadmap for how we can live up to that sacred promise. —Naomi Klein! author of This Changes Everything   "Dr. Danielle Martin has written an outstandingly useful book! for all Canadians! as the nation once again faces the challenges of ensuring effective health care for all. In doing so! Dr. Martin avoids the easy formulae of blanket solutions and properly roots health care’s future success in making hard choices on delivery! scope! and structure! based on Canadian values." —Roy Romanow! former Royal Commissioner on the Future of Health Care in Canada and Senior Fellow! Political Studies! University of Saskatchewan   "A clear-eyed! fearless and detailed manifesto! written with empathy and analytical? rigor. For doctors! patients and all Canadians ! Better Now is an inspiring prescription for the right balance in our shared health care framework ." —Hon. Hugh Segal! Master of Massey College! University of Toronto and former director of the Institute for Public Policy Informationen zum Autor DR. DANIELLE MARTIN, MD, CCFP, FCFP, MPP, is a family physician in Toronto and Vice President of Medical Affairs and Health System Solutions at Women's College Hospital. She teaches family medicine and health care policy at the University of Toronto and is a leader in the debate about the future of health care in Canada. In her first year of practice, she helped launch Canadian Doctors for Medicare to promote a high quality, equitable, and sustainable health system. She was named Canada's 8th most powerful doctor by  The Medical Post  in 2015 and is a regular contributor to CBC-TV's  The National . She writes a monthly column for  Chatelaine . Klappentext Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018 Dr. Danielle Martin sees the challenges in our health care system every day. As a family doctor and a hospital vice president! she observes how those deficiencies adversely affect patients. And as a health policy expert! she knows how to close those gaps. A passionate believer in the value of fairness that underpins the Canadian health care system! Dr. Martin is on a mission to improve medicare. In Better Now! she shows how bold fixes are both achievable and affordable. Her patients' stories and her own family's experiences illustrate the evidence she presents about what works best to improve health care for all. Better Now outlines "Six Big Ideas" to bolster Canada's health care system. Each one is centred on a typical Canadian patient! making it clear how close to home these issues strike. · Ensure every Canadian has regular access to a family doctor or other primary care provider · Bring prescription drugs under medicare · Reduce unnecessary tests and interventions · Reorganize health care delivery to reduce wait times and improve quality · Implement a basic income guarantee to alleviate poverty! which is a major threat to health · Scale up successful local innovations to a national level Passionate! accessib...

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• Autori: Danielle Martin
• Editore: Penguin Canada
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.01.2017
• EAN: 9780735232594
• ISBN: 978-0-7352-3259-4
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 158 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm