Download or read book Chronic Illness in Canada written by Joseph Osuji and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from our best-selling text, Chronic Illness: Impact and Intervention, Eighth Edition by Pamala D. Larsen and Ilene Morof Lubkin, this text includes recent definitions and models of care aimed towards chronic disease management (CDM) currently used in Canada. Canadian and global perspectives on chronic illness management are addressed throughout the text, and chapters on the role of primary health care in chronic care, family nursing, global health, and chronic illness are included to address the needs of nursing curriculum standards in Canada. Key Features *Chapter on complementary therapies within a Canadian health context *Every chapter is updated to include Canadian content and an emphasis on global healthcare *Contains theoretical and practical perspectives to address the continuing emergence of chronic illness in Canada and the world
Download or read book Chronic Condition written by Jeffrey Simpson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicare is the third rail of Canadian politics. Touch it and you die. Every politician knows this truism, which is why no one wants to debate it. Privately, many of them understand that the health-care system, which costs about $200 billion a year in public and private money, cannot continue as it is—increasingly ill-adapted to an aging population with public costs growing faster than government revenues. In Chronic Condition, Jeffrey Simpson explores the options we have to grapple with this growing problem, including cuts in non-health-care spending, tax increases, various types of privatization, and finding savings within health-care itself. His research takes him to emergency rooms and private clinics across Canada as he listens to health professionals, researchers, and administrators outline the challenges they face. Simpson examines the tenets of the medicare system that Canadians cling to so passionately. Combining impressive research, political acumen, and a sense of civic urgency, Chronic Condition breaks the silence about the huge changes and real choices that Canadians face. It is a catalyst for a much-needed public debate about an essential Canadian service.
Download or read book Why Health Care Renewal Matters written by and published by Health & Allied Science Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Immunization Guide written by Canada. Comité consultatif national de l'immunisation and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh edition of the Canadian Immunization Guide was developed by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), with the support ofthe Immunization and Respiratory Infections Division, Public Health Agency of Canada, to provide updated information and recommendations on the use of vaccines in Canada. The Public Health Agency of Canada conducted a survey in 2004, which confi rmed that the Canadian Immunization Guide is a very useful and reliable resource of information on immunization.
Download or read book Public Health Ethics Cases Spanning the Globe written by Drue H. Barrett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few practical training resources for public health practitioners, especially resources which include discussion of realistic cases which are likely to arise in the practice of public health. This work discusses these issues on a case to case basis and helps create awareness and understanding of the ethics of public health care. The main audience for the casebook is public health practitioners, including front-line workers, field epidemiology trainers and trainees, managers, planners, and decision makers who have an interest in learning about how to integrate ethical analysis into their day to day public health practice. The casebook is also useful to schools of public health and public health students as well as to academic ethicists who can use the book to teach public health ethics and distinguish it from clinical and research ethics.
Download or read book Emerging Approaches to Chronic Disease Management in Primary Health Care written by John Dorland and published by Queen's School of Policy Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing chronic disease in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Chronic Diseases in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cost of Chronic Disease in Canada written by Michael Mirolla and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chronic Conditions and Caregiving in Canada written by Miriam Joyce Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chronic Conditions and Caregiving in Canada is based on the result of a nationally funded research program conducted by teams of multidisciplinary researchers. This collection includes innovative assessment and intervention studies involving patients with diabetes, cystic fibrosis, spina bifida, HIV-AIDS, cardiac conditions, and stroke. The studies evaluate various forms of social support on the basis of a model that is outlined in the first chapter. Several chapters explore barriers to accessing support and key strategies for seeking support. The final chapters summarize the findings and outline the challenges that still face researchers in the field."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Chronic Diseases in Canada written by Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (Canada). Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cost of Chronic Disease in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada January 2004 The Cost of Chronic Disease in Canada ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report is based on the template, methodologies, and data sources used in GPI Atlantic's earlier report on the Cost of Chronic Disease in Nova Scotia, and is produced with express permission of GPI Atlantic. [...] According to Health Canada's Economic Burden of Illness in Canada 1993, diabetes accounts for 43.3% of the direct costs of all these endocrine and related disorders.28 According to Katzmarzyk et al., type 2 diabetes constitutes 92.5% of all diabetes cases, and would therefore constitute about 40% of the direct costs of all endocrine and related disorders.29 For the purposes 25 Birmingham, C. Laird [...] When these additional categories and costs of chronic illness are added to the seven diagnostic categories in Table 2, the full costs of chronic diseases to the Canadian health care system are likely to match the estimates of the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which attribute 60% of all health care costs in the U. S. to chronic diseases. [...] A three-year follow-up showed that, while metformin helped reduce the incidence of diabetes compared to the placebo, lifestyle intervention was the most effective method, reducing the incidence of diabetes by 58% compared to 31% for metformin.69 Endocrine and related disease costs as a percentage of the total economic burden of illness range from 2.6% for Newfoundland and Labrador and Manitoba to [...] As a percentage of the total economic burden of illness in each province, chronic respiratory diseases range between 2.3% of total costs in most provinces to 2.5% in Nova Scotia (Figure 12).74 Chronic respiratory illnesses therefore account for about the same proportion of the total economic burden of illness across the country with no distinctive patterns among the different regions.
Download or read book Working Bodies written by Sharon-Dale Stone and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While significant research has been produced in the field of disability studies, little attention has been paid to experiences of chronic illness. Working Bodies emphasizes the workplace as an important site for understanding such experiences, as employment status has an enormous impact on social and economic standing in Canadian society. The essays in this collection examine the perspectives of both workers and employers, painting a disturbing picture of the challenges that people with chronic illness face in an already demanding labour market. The focus on the Canadian workplace allows for an in-depth understanding of this context and for meaningful comparisons between populations and across workplace environments. Contributors include scholars and practitioners in disability studies, health sciences, geography, occupational therapy, sociology, and labour relations, their expert knowledge ranging from the imperatives of employers, to lived experiences of chronic illness, to the application of workplace policy. By combining research-based chapters with personal reflections on work and chronic illness, Working Bodies grounds itself in existing scholarship while opening up new avenues of discussion. Contributors include Terri Aversa, Andrea Black, Keri Cameron (McMaster University), Nicolette Carlan (University of Waterloo), Vera Chouinard (McMaster University), Valorie A, Crooks (Simon Fraser University), Julie Devaney, Le-Ann Dolan, Adam Gilgoff, Nancy Hutchinson (Queen's University), Vicki Kristman (Lakehead University), Terry Krupa (Queen's University), Rosemary Lysaght (Queen's University), Margaret Oldfield (University of Toronto), Michelle Owen (University of Winnipeg), Melissa Popiel, Wendy Porch, William S. Shaw (University of Massachusetts), Corinne Stevens, Iffath Syed (York University), Joan Versnel (Dalhousie University), and Kelly Williams-Whitt (University of Lethbridge).
Download or read book Chronic Diseases Related to Aging and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHRONIC DISEASES RELATED TO AGING AND HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION Report of the Standing Committee on Health Joy Smith, M. P. Chair MAY 2012 41st PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION Published under the authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons SPEAKER'S PERMISSION Reproduction of the proceedings of the House of Commons and its Committees, in whole or in part and in any medium, is hereby pe [...] Within the context of this priority, CIHR notes the need 7 to enhance patient-oriented care, the pressures placed on the health care system due to the aging population and rising rates of chronic disease, and the importance of leveraging resources by working collaboratively with other departments, agencies and non- governmental organizations to address research needs. [...] To increase the capacity of Aboriginal communities to act as partners in the creation, oversight and application of research to reduce the health disparities among Aboriginal Peoples, the Committee heard that CIHR has developed the "Pathways to Health Equity for Aboriginal Peoples". [...] The project was described as addressing the need to balance compassion and technical expertise in the provision of patient-centred care.39 It also heard that this approach, within a health promotion and disease prevention model, has been proposed by the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada to address the evolving training needs of future medical practitioners in response to the increasin [...] This initiatve will help to remove the stigma of mental illness, to allow seniors to identify symptoms and to help people feel more comfortable about raising the issue with their physicians and ask for help.77 The Committee was told of the Seniors Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada and of its contribution to Commission's Mental Health Strategy, which was subsequently rele.
Download or read book Health at a Glance 2019 OECD Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health at a Glance compares key indicators for population health and health system performance across OECD members, candidate and partner countries. It highlights how countries differ in terms of the health status and health-seeking behaviour of their citizens; access to and quality of health care; and the resources available for health. Analysis is based on the latest comparable data across 80 indicators, with data coming from official national statistics, unless otherwise stated.
Download or read book Chronic Diseases in Canada Special Report written by Canada. Health and Welfare Canada and published by Health and Welfare Canada. This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Health Care Renewal Matters written by Health Council of Canada and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inequalities in health outcomes in Canada are evident when we look at chronic health conditions, diabetes in particular. Aboriginal communities and lower-income people in Canada are at particularly high risk for developing a range of chronic health conditions including diabetes. Depending on the age group, First Nations adults are two to eight times more likely to have diabetes than Canadians generally, and they also have substantially higher rates of serious complications from diabetes, including kidney failure, foot amputations, heart disease and infectious disease. In this report, the Health Council profiles an initiative in northern Manitoba - the Island Lake Regional Renal Health Program - developed in response to the high rates of kidney failure in a remote First Nations region. And we take a look at the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Program which, after 12 years of sustained effort, has put the brakes to the persistent increase in new cases of diabetes in that Mohawk First Nation community near Montreal. The connection between health and wealth is also important in understanding how to influence health outcomes. The poorest Canadians are almost three times as likely to have multiple chronic health conditions, including diabetes, as the highest-income Canadians, and the ratio steps down steadily as family income goes up."--Page 12
Download or read book Diet and Health written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diet and Health examines the many complex issues concerning diet and its role in increasing or decreasing the risk of chronic disease. It proposes dietary recommendations for reducing the risk of the major diseases and causes of death today: atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (including heart attack and stroke), cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, liver disease, and dental caries.
