Hugh Armstrong: 4 books

Health care is Canada’s best-loved social program — and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of problems with the system. We are bombarded with warnings that public...

Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores the development of the Canadian health care system and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources);...

Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results...

Fate il pieno di benzina e allacciate le cinture: quello che attraversa gli Stati Uniti è un viaggio pazzesco, che non dimenticherete facilmente. Del resto, non c’è modo migliore per conoscere questo immenso paese, dinamico e coinvolgente, che percorrerlo ‘on the road’. Per i vostri itinerari:...