Update on health care in Canada: What’s right, what’s wrong, what’s left

Journal of Public Health Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 267-288

  Livingston, Martha ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNITY CARE; DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MEDICAL FEE; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE;

CANADA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS;

EID: 0031775232     PISSN: 01975897     EISSN: 1745655X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3343536     Document Type: Article

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