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Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red Connexions logo:

  1. An African Village Two decades of change in an African Village
    New Internationalist May 2006 - #389

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2006
    A look at the lives of people living in African villages and how things have improved.
  2. A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
  3. 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.
  4. National Council Against Health Fraud
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems. Our positions are based upon the principles of science that underlie consumer protection law. We advocate: (a) adequate disclosure in labeling and other warranties to enable consumers to make truly informed choices; (b) premarketing proof of safety and effectiveness for products and services claimed to prevent, alleviate, or cure any health problem; and, (c) accountability for those who violate the law.
  5. The National Health Program Book
    A Source Guide for Advocates

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Facts, statistics, and myth-debunking about the Canadian health insurance system and about competing proposals for reform of the U.S. health care system. Part I covers the Economic Context of the Health Care Crisis: Rising Costs, Declining Coverage and Incomes; Part II covers the Impact of the Crisis: Care Denied and Delayed; Part III covers the Social Cost of the American System: Poor Health care Leads to Poor Health. Part IV covers Rationing in the Midst of Plenty. Part V focuses on Exploring the Alternative: Canada's National Health Program. Part VI looks at Why Our System Costs More and Delivers Less: Administrative Waste in U.S. Health Care. Part VII deals with a National Health Program for the U.S.. Part VIII covers Paying for a National Health Program. Part IX looks at President Clinton's Plan: Making Insurance Companies the Feudal Lords of American Medicine. Part X is A Force for Change: Public Opinion on Health Care Reform. Part XI is A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal.
  6. The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back.
  7. No Strikes in Canada over health care
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    The health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are very different, leading to different approaches to disagreements, and significantly different outcomes.
  8. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1889
  9. Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
    Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  10. 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?"
  11. 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.
  12. User Charges, Snares and Delusions
    Another Look at the Literature

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994

Experts on Health Care Costs in the Sources Directory

  1. BC Nurses' Union
  2. Canadian Health Food Association
  3. Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada
  4. Consumer Health Products Canada
  5. Ontario Nurses' Association



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