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Treating Health Care

How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better

by (author) Raisa Deber

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2018
Category
Health Care Issues, Health Policy, Social Services & Welfare, Public Affairs & Administration
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487501549
    Publish Date
    Dec 2017
    List Price
    $61.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487521493
    Publish Date
    Dec 2017
    List Price
    $34.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487513467
    Publish Date
    Jan 2018
    List Price
    $34.95

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Description

Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context.

 

An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions that help us understand and diagnose Canada’s health care system and to clarify which proposed changes are likely to improve it - and which are not. This book provides background information to clarify such concepts as: determinants of health; how health systems are organized and financed (including international comparisons); health economics; health ethics; and roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders, including government, providers, and patients. It then addresses some key issues, including equity, efficiency, access and wait times, quality improvement and patient safety, and coverage and payment models. Using analysis rather than advocacy, Deber provides a toolkit to help understand health care and health policy.

About the author

Raisa B. Deber is a professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

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Editorial Reviews

Treating Health Care: How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better is frankly excellent. Raisa B. Deber has a crisp, engaging writing style that strips away the adjectives and political hyperbole that muddles so much of the medicare debate.”

Blacklocks Reporter, February 24, 2018