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Wasting Away

The Undermining of Canadian Health Care

by (author) Pat Armstrong & Hugh Armstrong

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2010
Category
Social Work
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195438291
    Publish Date
    Apr 2010
    List Price
    $27.50
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780195410709
    Publish Date
    Jun 1996
    List Price
    $29.95

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Pat Armstrong is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.

Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores the development of the Canadian health care system and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and who decides (public, private, and patients). The concluding chapter sums up the winners and losers in this system. A new Introduction by the authors thoroughly updates the subject.

About the authors

Pat Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of numerous books and articles in health and gender and has held a Canada Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institute of Health Research Chair in Health Services.

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Hugh Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor and professor emeritus of Social Work, Political Economy, and Sociology at Carleton University.

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