Staying alive
Subtitle: critical perspectives on health, illness, and health care
By: edited by Toba Bryant, Dennis Raphael, and Marcia Rioux ; foreword by Gary Teeple
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Canadian Scholars' Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9781551303703
Subjects: Social medicine; Medical care; Delivery of Health Care; Health Services; Socioeconomic Factors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Perspectives on health, illness, and health care.; title: Epidemiological approaches to population health  -- Stephen Bezruchka; title: Sociological perspectives on health and health care  -- Ivy Lynn Bourgeault; title: Health and health care : a political economy perspective  -- David Coburn; title: The right to health : human rights approaches to health  -- Marcia Rioux; title: Researching health : knowledge paradigms, methodologies, and methods -- Toba Bryant, Dennis Raphael, and Marcia Rioux.; title: pt. 2.; title: Social determinants of health.; title: Social determinants of health : an overview of concepts and issues  -- Dennis Raphael; title: Social class and health inequalities  -- Julie McMullin and Lorraine Davies; title: Gender, race, and health inequalities  -- Ann Pederson, Dennis Raphael, and Ellisa Johnson; title: Politics, public policy, and health inequalities -- Toba Bryant.; title: pt. 3.; title: Canada's health care system.; title: Cracks in the foundation : the origins and development of the Canadian and American health care systems  -- Georgina Feldberg, Robert Vipond, and Toba Bryant; title: Evolution of health care policy : deconstructing divergent approaches  -- Mary E. Wiktorowicz; title: The provision of care : professions, politics, and profit -- Ivy Lynn Bourgeault.; title: pt. 4.; title: Critical issues in health, illness, and health care.; title: Gender, health, and care  -- Pat Armstrong; title: Constructing disability and illness  -- Marcia Rioux and Tamara Daly; title: Pharmaceutical policy : the dance between industry, government, and the medical profession  -- Joel Lexchin; title: The political economy of public health : public health concerns in Canada, the U.S., U.K., Norway, and Sweden  -- Dennis Raphael and Toba Bryant; title: Toward the future : current themes in health research and practice in Canada -- Toba Bryant, Dennis Raphael, and Marcia Rioux.