Unhealthy policy: The political economy of Canadian public-private partnership hospitals

Health Sociology Review

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 258-268

  Whiteside, Heather ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accumulation by dispossession; Medicare (Canada); Neoliberalism; Public private partnerships; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053897416     PISSN: 14461242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/hesr.2011.20.3.258     Document Type: Article

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