| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 458 pages) |
| Contents |
1. What is in and out of Medicare? who decides? / Colleen M. Flood, Carolyn Tuohy and Mark Stabile -- 2. Charter challenges and evidence-based decision-making in the health care system : towards a symbiotic relationship / Donna Greschner -- 3. Misdiagnosis or cure? : charter review of the health care system / Martha Jackman -- 4. Claiming equity and justice in health : the role of the South African right to health in ensuring access to HIV/AIDS treatment / Lisa Forman -- 5. Abortion denied : bearing the limits of law / Sanda Rodgers -- 6. Protecting fairness in women's health : the case of emergency contraception / Joanna N. Erdman and Rebecca J. Cook -- 7. Achieving reproductive rights : access to emergency oral contraception and abortion in Quebec / Robert P. Kouri -- 8. Jurisdictional roulette : constitutional and structural barriers to aboriginal access to health / Constance MacIntosh -- 9. The rural aboriginal health gap : the Romanow solutions? / Janesca Kydd -- 10. Access to treatment of serious mental illness : enabling choice or enabling treatment? / Sheila Wildeman -- 11. The legal regulation of referral incentives : physician kickbacks and physician self-referral / Sujit Choudhry, Niteesh K. Choudhry and Adalsteinn D. Brown -- 12. The costs of avoiding physician conflicts of interest : a cautionary tale of gainsharing regulation / Richard S. Saver -- 13. The agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights and its implications for health care / Roxanne Mykitiuk and Michelle Dagnino -- 14. Patient mobility in the European Union / Andre Den Exter -- 15. The power of illusion and the illusion of power : direct-to-consumer advertising and Canadian health care / Patricia Peppin -- 16. The media, marketing, and genetic services / Timothy Caulfield -- 17. Commercialized medical research and the need for regulatory reform / Trudo Lemmens -- 18. Grasping the nettle : confronting the issue of competing interests and obligations in health research policy / Jocelyn Downie |
| Summary |
The most important issue facing Canadian health care today is access to services. But who decides what services will be publicly funded, and how? The essays in Just Medicare explore the diverse means by which law influences what should and should not be covered by publicly-funded Medicare. Edited by Colleen M. Flood, the collection demonstrates three analytical approaches to the question of what services attract public funding. The first describes the existing processes for determining what is in and out of the publicly-funded sector and what is left to the private sector. The second approach suggests the principles that should guide decision-making and then investigates existing decision-making processes to see whether or not such principles are applied. The third analytical approach focuses on the processes of determining what services are publicly funded and, in particular, the right to review or appeal those decisions. The role of law is usually underestimated by those in health policy. Just Medicare illustrates that legal scholars can also contribute to the issue of how to allocate scarce health resources by determining what constitutes fair processes for decision-making, and by challenging unjust processes. In re-evaluating the potential of the law, this collection adds an important new dimension to the issue of health care in Canada |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Medical care -- Law and legislation -- Canada
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National health insurance -- Law and legislation -- Canada
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Medical policy -- Canada
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Medical policy.
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Delivery of Health Care -- legislation & jurisprudence
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Health Policy
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National Health Programs -- legislation & jurisprudence
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MEDICAL -- Medicaid & Medicare.
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Medical care -- Law and legislation
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Medical policy
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National health insurance -- Law and legislation
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| SUBJECT |
Canada |
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Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Flood, Colleen M. (Colleen Marion), 1966-
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| ISBN |
9781442676459 |
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1442676450 |
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