- Addiction and Mental Illness... The Stakes are High but the Opportunity is Great
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
This week's release of the ground-breaking study 'Opening Eyes, Opening Minds: The Ontario Burden of Mental Illness and Addictions Report' provides a shocking perspective on the impact that mental illness and addiction has on the health and liv
- The Alternate Health Services Directory
The Authoritative Resource Directory of Therapies, Products & Services
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
The Alternative Health Services Directory is a 200 page comprehensive collection of healing services and products.
- Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
Resource Type: Book
- The American Class System
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
- BC Nurses' Union
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canada Health Infoway
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canada's Great Divide
The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
- Canadian Academy of Periodontology
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Canadian Family Health Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Engel emphasizes preventive medicine and consumers' understanding of medical issues through consultation with the University's Faculty of Medicine.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Institute of Actuaries
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- College of Nurses of Ontario
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Health
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Health Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on health.
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- 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.
- 40+ Guide to Fitness
A Physician's Exercise and Sports Program
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Exercise programs to increase strength, aerobic fitness and athletic skills.
- From Policy to Practice
The Future of the Bangladesh National Drug Policy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
In 1982, Bangladesh became the first country to introduce a National Drug Policy based on such conceptions as primary health care and the need for essential drugs. Ten years later, it had one of the best records in terms of stable drug prices and less dependence on imported products.
- Get a Life!
How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
- The Handy Home Medical Advisor
Resource Type: Book
- Health & Safety Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to health and safety in the Sources directory for the media.
- Health: A Need for Redirection
A Taskforce on the Allocation of Health Care Resources
Resource Type: Book
- Health Care
Conflicting Opinions Tough Decisions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Health Care Politics Economics Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to health care politics and economics in the Sources directory for the media.
- Health - Health Care: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
- The Healthsharing Book
Resources for Canadian Women
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- HealthSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Healthy Change
Towards Equality in Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Inequalities in the length of life lived and the extent of disease as experienced by different social classes speaks to the more general inequalities of Western civilisation. GPs, hospitals and local authorities all need to be reorganized before our societies can hope to reach the WHO's greater goal of "health for all".
- Healthy Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- 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.
- How People Get Power
Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
- If the doctor is listening, you have 11 seconds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
U.S. study found that just 36% of doctors posed an open-ended question to get patients to talk.
- Immigrant Women's Health Handbook
A Book By and For Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1981
- 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.
- Law Student Publishes Textbook with Oxford University Press
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
A law student at the University of Western Ontario has published a chapter in an Australian textbook on public health.
- 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.
- Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- Dr. Anthony W. Martin, Author of <bi>Medical Crisis: Secrets Your Doctor Won't Share With You</bi>
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Medicare in Canada: Facts and Myths
Health Care Myths
Resource Type: Article
Refutes the myths and representations spread by medicare#s opponents.
- The Medicine Show
Resource Type: Book
- More Advice from The Back Doctor
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- National Union of Public and General Employees
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Nurses disappointed with Vernon hospital announcement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Nurses disappointed with Vernon hospital announcement. New Polson tower will result in only 14 new beds when at least 30 more beds and more nursing staff are needed.
- Nurses Send a Message to Health Authority CEO
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Keep the Promise of Safer Care through Safe Staffing at Women's and Children's Hospital
- Ontario Association of Medical Radiation Technologists
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Ontario Homeopathic Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Ontario Nurses' Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Pensions Under Attack
What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Townson discusses the forces behind the drive to privatize public pensions and its impact on the financial security of seniors. In doing so, she traces a history from Pinochet's Chile to Thatcher's Great Britain to critique Canada's move toward privatization.
- The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1889
- Red Bologna
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
- Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Safety Last
The Failure of the Consumer Health Protection System in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Regush investigates how new medical devices and drugs are tested. He argues that the health protection bureaucracy is doing shoddy work, caving in to pressure from pharmaceutical corporations instead of acting to safeguard the health of Canadians.
- Second Opinion
Diseases and decisions in modern medicine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
The author focuses on the ills of modern medical practice, focusing on the participation patients need to have in the decision-making process involved in their treatments. He also critics the pharmaceutical industry about their prices and his involvement in global health.
- Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
- Sources Select Health Experts
Resource Type: Website
Health experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
- Sources Select Health Practitioners
Resource Type: Website
Health Practitioners available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
- Take Care
Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
"Examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particularly women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant urgency to the crucial question: What kind of health care system will Canadians inherit in the twenty-first century?"
- Ten Health Care Myths
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
- 10 Health Care Myths - Chinese Text
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
- Toronto Rehab
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Toronto Survival Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- VA Care is for Data
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Data production takes priority over concrete patient care itself in the new healthcare assembly line, as evidenced in the Veteran's Administration scandal.
- 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.
- The Wealthy Banker's Wife
The Assault on Equality in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Who Cares?
The Crisis in Canadian Nursing
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Whose Health Care?
Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2005
- Wilfrid Laurier University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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