Health And Canadian Society

Author : James E. Moran
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773576541
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health and Canadian Society written by James E. Moran and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mental Health and Canadian Society leading researchers challenge generalisations about the mentally ill and the history of mental health in Canada. Considering the period from colonialism to the present, they examine such issues as the rise of the insanity plea, the Victorian asylum as a tourist attraction, the treatment of First Nations people in western mental hospitals, and post-World War II psychiatric research into LSD.

Author : David Coburn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802080523
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Canadian Society written by David Coburn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and Canadian Society provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between health, health care, and Canadian society. It is a wide-ranging volume that moves from personal and micro concerns to a more macro and institutional focus. It includes chapters of a descriptive nature and others with a more explanatory intent. They have been selected from the major journals or have been expressly written for this book. Ninety-five percent of the contributions are new to this edition. The chapters and the studies reported on are methodologically diverse, ranging from ethnographic studies to statistical analyses of data from large national surveys. Though the chapters are written by anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, and physicians, as well as sociologists, they all have a sociological "turn." Recognized as the standard textbook on the sociology of health in Canada, Health and Canadian Society is an essential reference for sociologists, health care providers, health administrators, and policy planners.

Author : Dennis Raphael
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1773636626
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book About Canada: Health and Illness, 3rd Edition written by Dennis Raphael and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02T00:00:00Z with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living a long, healthy life is one obvious goal of pretty much all of us. We are told, over and over, to change our “lifestyles” and accept that if we become ill, we have likely brought it on ourselves. Yet, hundreds of studies, over the past four decades, tell the real story: the living and working conditions we experience every day play a determining role in our health. How income and wealth, housing, education and adequate food are distributed, whether or not we are employed, and the working conditions we experience — not medical treatments nor so-called wellness lifestyles — determine whether we stay healthy or become ill. These living and working conditions reflect the social inequalities that are associated with social class, gender, race and other social locations in Canadian society. The third edition of Health and Illness shows how inequitable distribution of the social determinants of health are determined by public policy decisions. Dennis Raphael updates information that connects health and illness to the worsening levels of inequality in Canada – the rich are getting richer and the rest of us are getting sick! This edition also includes a chapter on the social determinants of who got sick and died from COVID-19. The experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic make the clear case that we need to restructure work and living conditions through public policy that more equitably distributes economic resources. It is only through such actions that we will be able to promote the health of Canadians and prevent illness in an effective manner.

Author : Ryan Meili
Publisher : Purich Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1895830672
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Healthy Society written by Ryan Meili and published by Purich Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, Mozambique, and rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Ryan Meili uses scholarship and patient stories to explore health determinants and democratic reforms that could create a truly healthy society. By synthesizing diverse ideas into a plan for action based on the lived experiences of practitioners and patients, A Healthy Society breaks important ground in the renewal of politics toward the goal of better lives for all Canadians.

Author : Toba Bryant
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 177338189X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State written by Toba Bryant and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to discuss the Canadian welfare state through a health-focused lens, The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State argues that the nature of Canada’s liberal welfare state shapes the health care system, the social determinants of health, and the health of all Canadians. Documenting decades of work on the social determinants of health, authors Toba Bryant and Dennis Raphael explore topics such as power and influence in Canadian society, socially and economically marginalized populations, and approaches to promoting health. Each chapter examines different aspects of the links between public policy, health, and the welfare state, investigating how broader societal structures and processes of the country’s economic and political systems shape living and working conditions and, inevitably, the overall health of Canadians. Contextualizing the history and status of Canadian health and health care systems with Canada’s welfare state, this concise and timely text is well suited as a supplementary resource for health studies, sociology of health, and nursing courses in universities across Canada.

Author : David Coburn
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
ISBN 13 : 9780889028326
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Canadian Society written by David Coburn and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 1987 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Coburn
Publisher : [Don Mills, Ont.] : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
ISBN 13 : 9780889021174
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health and Canadian Society written by David Coburn and published by [Don Mills, Ont.] : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 1981 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Crichton
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1895176840
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Health Care written by Anne Crichton and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed within the context of the expansion of the Canadian welfare state in the years following the Great Depression, the present organization of Canadian health care delivery is now in serious need of reform. This book documents the causes and effects of changes made in this century to Canada's health care policy. Particular emphasis is placed on the decades following 1940, the years in which Canada moved away from an individualistic entrepreneurial medical care system, first toward a collectivist biomedical model and then to a social model for health care.

Author : Melissa D. Giesbrecht
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317080564
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Place, Health, and Diversity written by Melissa D. Giesbrecht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although health equity and diversity-focussed research has begun to gain momentum, there is still a paucity of research from health geographers that explicitly explores how geographic factors, such as place, space, scale, community, and location, inform multiple axes of difference. Such axes can include residential location, age, sex, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, socio-economic status, marital status, sexual orientation, education level, and immigration status. Specifically focussing on Canada’s rapidly changing society, which is becoming increasingly pluralized and diverse, this book examines the place-health-diversity intersection in this national context. Health geographers are well positioned to offer a valuable contribution to diversity-focussed research because place is inextricably linked to differential experiences of health. For example, access to health care and health promoting services and resources is largely influenced by where one is physically and socially situated within the web of diversity. Furthermore, applying geographic concepts like place, in both the physical and social sense, allows researchers to explore multiple axes of difference simultaneously. Such geographic perspectives, as presented in this book, offer new insights into what makes diverse people, in diverse places, with access to diverse resources (un)healthy in different ways in Canada and beyond.

Author : Dennis Raphael
Publisher : Canadian Scholar's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551302379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Determinants of Health written by Dennis Raphael and published by Canadian Scholar's Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed volume is the first of its kind published in Canada. It summarizes how socio-economic factors affect the health of Canadians, surveys the current state of eleven social determinants of health across Canada and provides an analysis of how these determinants affect Canadians' health. In each case, the book explores what policy options would contribute to better health outcomes and how to ensure that these options are pursued. Contributors investigate eleven critical areas : Aboriginal status, early life, education, employment and working conditions, food security, health care services, housing, income and its distribution, social safety net, social exclusion, unemployment and employment security. Gender and how its meaning is constructed within Canadian society is another important social determinant of health. All contributors systematically consider how it impacts upon and interacts with their specific social determinant of health to influence health. [CSPI Ed.].