Steps on the Road to Medicare: Why Saskatchewan Led the Way - Houston, Stuart

Clean, tight, unmarked; slight wear to upper inside corner; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; In this book Houston shows why Saskatchewan has led in the development of publicly funded health care since 1915 by examining Saskatchewan's many firsts, such as universal free diagnosis and treatment of TB, which began in January 1929; free medical care for pensioners and widows from the mid-1940s; a universal, comprehensive health care plan, instituted in the Swift Current region in July 1945, two years before Britain began such a program; and ultimately a universal, province-wide hospitalization insurance plan in Jan 1946. Since that time Saskatchewan has seen the first inclusion of psychotic patients in an open psychiatric ward in a general teaching hospital, the first government-sponsored cancer clinics, the first full-time cancer physicist, and the world's first use of calibrated betatron and cobalt-60 machines for treating cancer. The creation of Canada's first universal health care system was a triumph of the pioneering spirit of the people of Saskatchewan as well as their spirit of community. If medicare is to survive in Canada both will need to be rekindled.
Near Fine
Soft cover
McGill-Queen's University Press
2002
Montreal, QC