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Clicking on the title of an item takes you to the bibliographic page for the resource, which typically also contains an abstract, a link to the full text if it is available online, and links to related topics in the subject index. You can find items through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red Connexions logo:

  1. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
    Resource Type: Book
  2. Canada's Great Divide
    The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  3. Challenging McWorld
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  4. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  5. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  6. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  7. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  8. Connexions Annual Overview: Health
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  9. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  10. Connexions Library: Health Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on health.
  11. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  12. Dr. med. Mabuse
    Zeitschrift im Gesundheitswesen
    Resource Type: Organization
    Die Bucher des Mabuse-Verlags und unsere Zeitschrift, Dr. med. Mabuse, sind einer sozialen und humanen Medizin und Pflege verpflichtet und wenden sich nicht nur an Fachkrafte im Gesundheitswesen, sondern wollen allen Interessierten Zugang zum Thema ermöglichen. Der schwierige, aber notwendige Dialog zwischen den Berufsgruppen liegt uns hierbei besonders am Herzen.
  13. From Gaza, with Love
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006
    A blog by Dr. Mona El-Farra, about women, health, children and human rights in Occupied Palestine.
  14. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
  15. Health Care Around the World
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Overview of the various ways health services are provided around the world, as well as accompanying issues and challenges. Topics include health as a human right, universal health care, and primary health care.
  16. Health Hazard
    New Internationalist January/February 2001
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    A look into the history of public health and the challenges it is facing.
  17. The Healthsharing Book
    Resources for Canadian Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  18. HealthWatcher.net Consumer Health Watchdog
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Web site which seek to expose quackeryand bogus practices in health care, including cancer quackery and diet scams.
  19. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
  20. Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976   Published: 1977
  21. Out of Africa: A Migrant's Story
    New Internationalist June 2005 - #379
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    An issue on the story of a nurse's return back to Kenya and the reason why she has worked so far away from home. Also, a discussion on a widespread crisis in international healthcare and the human costs of our global free-market economy
  22. Pensions Under Attack
    What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  23. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1889
  24. Quackwatch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere. Includes links to other interesting websites.
  25. Red Bologna
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  26. Safety Last
    The Failure of the Consumer Health Protection System in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Regush investigates how new medical devices and drugs are tested. He argues that the health protection bureaucracy is doing shoddy work, caving in to pressure from pharmaceutical corporations instead of acting to safeguard the health of Canadians.
  27. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
  28. Social Determinants of Health
    Canadian Perspectives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
  29. Take Care
    Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    "Examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particularly women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant urgency to the crucial question: What kind of health care system will Canadians inherit in the twenty-first century?"
  30. Ten Health Care Myths 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
  31. 10 Health Care Myths - Chinese Text
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
  32. The Venezuelan Revolution
    New Internationalist June 2006
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A look inside the Venezuelan Revolution and facts and history of the country.
  33. The Wealthy Banker's Wife 
    The Assault on Equality in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993

Experts on Health Care in the Sources Directory

  1. BC Nurses' Union
  2. Canada Health Infoway
  3. Canadian Academy of Periodontology
  4. Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors
  5. The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
  6. Canadian Institute of Actuaries
  7. The Cochrane Collaboration / The Cochrane Library
  8. College of Nurses of Ontario
  9. College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario
  10. College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario
  11. National Union of Public and General Employees
  12. Ontario Association of Medical Radiation Technologists
  13. Ontario Nurses' Association
  14. Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario
  15. Toronto Rehab
  16. Wilfrid Laurier University
  17. World Health Organization


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Catalogue of more than 10,000 books, articles, films, periodicals, websites and other resources.
Indexed by Author, Title, Format, Subject, Dewey number, Library of Congress classification, Year of Publication.
Connexions Directory Associations and NGOs dealing with social and environmental issues — A-Z Index or Subject Index.
For experts and media spokespersons also see the Sources directory and the comprehensive Sources Subject Index.
Links Selected Internet resources featuring information about alternatives.
Calendar Events from across Canada. Also see: Sources Calendar and news releases.
Publicity and Media Resources, publications and articles to help you get publicity and raise awareness. Plus Media Names & Numbers Canadian media directory, the Parliamentary Names & Numbers Canadian government directory, and mailing lists.
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Mission Connexions exists to support individuals and groups working for freedom and social justice. We work to maintain and make available a record of the theory and practice of people struggling against oppression and for social change. We believe that the more we know about the struggles, victories, and defeats of the past, and about those who took part in them, the better equipped we will be to bring a new world into being. Connexions maintains a physical archive of books and documents, and is engaged in an ongoing project to build and expand an indexed digital archive of documents. We try to feature a wide variety of resources reflecting a diversity of viewpoints and approaches to social change within our overall mandate of support for democracy, civil liberties, freedom of expression, universal human rights, secularism, equality, economic justice, environmental responsibility, and the creation and preservation of community. We are internationalist in our orientation, but as a Canadian-based project we feature an especially extensive collection of Canadian documents and profiles of Canadian activist organizations.