| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 196 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index. |
| Contents |
Health care and our theoretical base -- Health care and power -- Health care and chaos -- Chaos, power, and ethics -- The origins and pathology of crisis -- The denial of crisis -- The orthodox apprach to health care reform -- How medicare works -- The right to health care; the legal context -- The right to health care; the historical context -- The privatization alternative -- A new approach to managing health services in Canada. |
| Summary |
Annotation Is health care like the BC Ferry Service or Ontario Hydro? Lawrie McFarlane and Carlos Prado argue that health care is being treated as though it were just another public utility and that the present crisis in medicare has developed precisely because of this approach. In The Best-Laid Plans they contend that what health care needs is less centralized management and the restoration of empowerment to both patients and care-givers. Contrary to recent attempts to reform health care, which have been based on the assumption that all health care needs is better management, McFarlane and Prado contend that what separates health care from other public services is the complex relationships between the service providers (doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, etc.) and their clients (patients), and the tendency for these relationships to evolve in unpredictable ways. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Health care reform -- Canada.
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Health care reform. |
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Canada. |
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Medical care -- Canada.
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Medical care. |
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Health Care Reform. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Medical care. |
| Added Author |
Prado, C. G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McFarlane, Lawrie. Best-laid plans. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002 0773523642 (DLC) 2003267257 (OCoLC)48242478 |
| ISBN |
9780773570214 (electronic book) |
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0773570217 (electronic book) |
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1282860461 |
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9781282860469 |
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9780773523647 |
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0773523642 |
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9780773523654 |
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0773523650 |
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