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Health & Welfare
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Transforming Child Welfare : interdisciplinary practices, field education, and researchPublication Date: 2016-10-21
Canada has among the highest rate of children in foster care in the developed world--a national tragedy that has its roots in poverty, residential schooling, and other forms of colonialism. Tackling the "wicked" and intransigent problems encountered by social workers, educators, health care workers, and others, this book examines systemic issues within the child welfare system, including child abuse, neglect, and FASD. Reflecting on previous strengths, and integrating research and practice, the contributors to this volume provide professionals with best practice solutions that can be applied in different contexts.
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Welfare Reform in Canada: Provincial Social Assistance in Comparative Perspective by Daniel Béland (Editor.)Publication Date: 2015
The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. The key issues of social assistance in Canada, including gender relations, immigrants, Aboriginal peoples, and the impact of activation programs, are addressed, as is the possibility of convergence taking place in provincial welfare policy.
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Health and Health Care Delivery in Canada by Valerie D. ThompsonPublication Date: 2015-04-20
This 2nd Edition explores the nation's basic approach to health, wellness, and illness. Set entirely within a Canadian context, it includes coverage of individual and population health, the role of federal agencies and provincial governments, health care funding, and current issues and future trends in health care.
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Health in Rural Canada by Judith C. Kulig (Editor)Publication Date: 2012
Health research in Canada has mostly focused on urban areas, often overlooking the unique issues faced by Canadians living in rural and remote areas. This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the state of rural health and health care in Canada.
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Homelessness & Health in Canada by Manal Guirguis-YoungerPublication Date: 2014
Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homeless persons in Canada. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness to end-of-life care, the authors strive to outline policy and practice recommendations to respond to the ongoing public health crisis.
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Health systems in transition : Canada by Gregory P. MarchildonPublication Date: 2013
Balancing careful assessment, summary, and illustration, Health Systems in Transition: Canada is a thorough and illuminating look at one of the nation's most complex public policies and associated institutions.Contains: Organization and governance -- Financing -- Physical and human resources -- Provision of services -- Principal health reforms -- Assessment of the health system -- Conclusions
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Case studies in Canadian health policy and management by Raisa B. DeberPublication Date: 2014
Covering a wide range of issues, the 22 cases included in Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management constitute an exceptional resource for bringing real-life policy questions into the classroom. Each case features both a substantive health policy issue and a selection of key concepts and methods appropriate to examining public policy, public health, and health care management issues.
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Engendering migrant health : Canadian perspectives by Denise L. SpitzerPublication Date: 2011
Voluntary migrants to Canada are generally healthier than the average Canadian, but after ten years in the country they report poorer health and higher rates of chronic disease than those born here. Troublingly, women — particularly those from non-European countries — experience the most precipitous decline in health. What contributes to this deterioration, and how can its effects be mitigated?
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