
Wasting Away
The Undermining of Canadian Health Care
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2010
- Category
- Social Work
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780195438291
- Publish Date
- Apr 2010
- List Price
- $28.99
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Description
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.
Hugh Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor and professor emeritus of Social Work, Political Economy, and Sociology at Carleton University.
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