Medical Alert
New Work Organizations in Health Care
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1997
- Category
- Health Care Delivery
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551930084
- Publish Date
- Jan 1997
- List Price
- $37.95
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Description
Private-sector approaches are being widely adopted in health care, but there is little evidence to demonstrate either that they offer a better way to organize work, or that they are applicable to the provision of quality health care. Patients and health care workers describe their experiences in Medical Alert: New Work Organizations in Health Care, and their responses challenge the assumptions of private-sector advocates, with implications reaching far beyond Canadian hospitals.
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.
Jacqueline Choiniere is an associate professor with the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health at York University..