- An African Village Two decades of change in an African Village
New Internationalist May 2006 - #389
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2006
A look at the lives of people living in African villages and how things have improved.
- A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
- BC Nurses' Union
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Health Food Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- HealthSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Medicare in Canada: Facts and Myths
Health Care Myths
Resource Type: Article
Refutes the myths and representations spread by medicare#s opponents.
- Medicare Myths and Realities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
- The National Health Program Book
A Source Guide for Advocates
Resource Type: Book
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.
- NDMAC, Advancing Canadian Self-care
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
Resource Type: Book
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.
- No Strikes in Canada over health care
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Nurses disappointed with Vernon hospital announcement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Nurses disappointed with Vernon hospital announcement. New Polson tower will result in only 14 new beds when at least 30 more beds and more nursing staff are needed.
- Ontario Nurses' Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1889
- Privatization in the Canadian Health Care System
Assertions, Evidence, Ideology and Options
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- The Real Pushers
A Critical Analysis of the Canadian Drug Industry
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A comprehensive analysis of the pharmaceutical drug industry in Canada.
- The Remarkable Tenacity of User Charges
A Concise History of the Participation, Positions and Rationales of Canadian Interest Groups
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
- Strong Medicine
How to Save Canada's Health Care System
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
The authors make comparisons of health care between the United States and Canada and argue that changes must be made to Canada's health care system so services can be accessible to the public.
- Take Care
Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
Resource Type: Book
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?"
- Ten Health Care Myths
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
- United Nurses of Alberta
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- User Charges in Health Care
A Bibliography
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
- User Charges, Snares and Delusions
Another Look at the Literature
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
- The Waiting Room
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
The film watches a Californian hospital for a full day, observing what patients and staff go through as they deal with the over-crowded, under-funded US health care system.
- Why Not User Charges?
The Real Issues
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1993
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