Home Title Index Topic Index Sources Directory News Releases Sources Calendar RSS Sources Select News RSS Feed

Health Care Access
AlterLinks Topic Index

  1. Bayshore Home Health
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  2. Building a Solidarity City
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A Solidarity City is the creation of a community that rejects a system that engenders poverty and anguish, not solely for immigrants and refugees, but also for other Montrealers confronting these same realities.
  3. Call to non-cooperation with IFHP cuts launched in Toronto
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Health care workers and other service providers refuse to comply with restrictions to the refugee health program and call for action.
  4. Canada Health Infoway
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  6. Court Upholds Ruling to Reinstate Refugee Health Care
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Health for All welcomes the Federal Court of Appeal's decision to uphold a ruling from earlier this summer demanding that the Conservative government reverse its 'cruel and unusual' cuts to refugee health care.
  7. The Crisis of Color and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments which America's national leaders use to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions.
  8. Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada.
  9. Dying for Growth
    Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor

    Resource Type: Book
  10. Emergency Gaza Update 28.12.2008
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Targeting of civilians and/of medical facilities is a breach of international humanitarian law. The targets chosen by the Israeli military include also clearly civilian installations.
  11. '54 Palestinians die' as Israel refuses medical permits
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    According to Rights groups, Israel is responsible for 54 deaths in the besieged Gaza Strip in 2017 due to a lack of medical permits.
  12. Film Review: Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of the provocative documentary Revolutionary Medicine, which tells the story of the first Garifuna hospital, in Honduras.
  13. Health Nexus
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  14. Homelessness, Health Care and Welfare Provision
    Resource Type: Book
    Drawing on their extensive background in working with the homeless in East London, the editors look at the subject from different perspectives. There are chapters on mental heath, substance abuse, youth homelessness and an analysis of differing models for providing care. Two of the major themes running though the book are: that the homeless have the right to equal access to health care and that only when their needs for affordable housing are met will their health greatly improve.
  15. Israeli human rights organization highlights deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reports by Physicians for Human Rights - Israel document the deterioration of Palestinian health in the West Bank and Gaza as the direct consequence of ongoing Israeli military occupation.
  16. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
  17. Lean & Mean Health Care
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Chern examines the Affordable Care Act from the perspective of being an industry and how this will regulate, standardize, and consolidate the healthcare system.
  18. Life Before Medicare
    Canadian Experiences

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  19. Medical Reform Group shocked at physician protest
    News Release February 24, 1986

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1986
  20. 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.
  21. National Day of Action against cuts to refugee health care
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    On June 30, 2102, refugees will face drastic cuts to their health insurance. Risking the lives of Canada's most vulnerable is unacceptable. There will be a National Day of Action June 18 in cities across Canada. Join us in protesting these cuts.
  22. National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
    Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
  23. Novus Health
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  24. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
  25. The Remarkable Tenacity of User Charges
    A Concise History of the Participation, Positions and Rationales of Canadian Interest Groups

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
  26. Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    The story of the building of a hospital in Ciriboya, Honduras -- an authentic, grass-roots, community development project, from the initial community meetings, the organized planning, the community defense committees, to the actual bricks, mortar and staffing. The viewer of Revolutionary Medicine is guided through the process in a series of compelling interviews with doctors, patients and community protagonists.
  27. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  28. Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  29. Toronto Survival Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  30. Undocumented Labour: Changes to refugee health care put women and babies at risk
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Pregnant refugee and non-status women are facing growing difficulties in accessing pre & post-natal care. Some doula's in Montreal are helping to fix that situation.
  31. 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.

Experts on Health Care Access in the Sources Directory

  1. Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
  2. United Nations Human Rights Council

Sources-journalists use the sources website to find you


AlterLinks


© 2019. The information provided is copyright and may not be reproduced in any form or by any means (whether electronic, mechanical or photographic), or stored in an electronic retrieval system, without written permission of the publisher. The content may not be resold, republished, or redistributed. Indexing and search applications by Ulli Diemer and Chris DeFreitas.