Health & Medicine / Health / Health Policy

Alberta: A Health System Profile provides the first comprehensive and detailed overview of the economic, political, population health, program and service delivery aspects of health care in Alberta and the resulting health outcomes.

Examining high profile case studies of medically caused suffering and death, When Medicine Goes Awry critiques the present functioning of the medical care system and the pharmaceutical industry.

Drawing on extensive original qualitative research, Global Health and The Village brings the complex local and transnational factors governing women’s access to safe maternity care into focus.

Combining a historical account with a current analysis, Newfoundland and Labrador: A Health System Profile is the first comprehensive study of the province’s health institutions, policies, and outcomes.

The book provides a thorough review of the U.S. health care system, including its organization and financing, care delivery, recent reforms, and an evaluation of the system’s performance.

This is the story of a psychiatrist and his career-long relationship with a difficult patient showing how medical treatment should not just be about biology, but also about psychology.

Bridging information gaps on health inequities faced by vulnerable children, adolescents, and families in Canada, this book informs readers of the key tools to promote productive, fulfilling lives of people managing prevalent health challenges.

Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry evaluates the progress made in holding the pharmaceutical industry to account through greater transparency.

This book provides insight into how the Canadian health care system is financed and organized, how it has evolved over time, and how well it performs relative to peer countries.

This book describes and analyses the health system of Mexico as part of a series covering health systems in Europe, Canada and the United States of America.

Organs for Sale is an extended case study of a lively public moral debate that delves into how a society assigns worth as well as what ought to be for sale and why.

Taking the Bite out of Rabies records the evolution of rabies management and control in Canada.

This is the first book-length work to analyse Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks

How will the ecological and economic crises of the 21st century transform health systems and human wellbeing?

This is the first major exploration of the Canada’s assisted reproduction policy at the national and provincial levels. It explains the reasons that led to the federal government’s failed national framework, and the legacy it left behind.

Turning a critical eye to the health care system in Nova Scotia, Katherine Fierlbeck outlines the frameworks structuring provincial health care, while providing a detailed assessment of Nova Scotia’s health financing, physical infrastructure, and service provision.