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Treating Health Care: How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better
Raisa B Deber, Jennifer Zwicker1
1Director of Health Policy at the School of Public Policy and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary. She is a member of the Owerko Center in the Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute and the O'Brien Institute of Public Health.
Abstract:
Health policy analysis requires an understanding of a broad range of topics that are often taught in different disciplines spanning economics, political science, ethics, health administration, public health and healthcare. Professor Raisa Deber's Treating Health Care is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the basic fundamentals of the healthcare system, eloquently weaving together key concepts across disciplines and background information to equip the reader with a "toolkit" for decision making in health policy analysis.
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