Covering a wide range of issues, the 22 cases included in Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management constitute an exceptional resource for bringing real-life policy questions into the classroom. Based on actual events, the cases were developed with input from students in the course, most of whom were mid-career professionals with strong field experience and were extensively tested in Raisa B. Deber’s graduate and undergraduate case studies courses at the University of Toronto. Each case features both a substantive health policy issue and key concepts and methods appropriate to examining public policy, public health, and health care management issues. In each case, the book provides a summary of the case and the related policy issues, a description of events, suggested questions for discussion, supporting information, and lists works cited and further reading. An accompanying volume of teaching notes helps guide how the case can be taught. The book also includes a substantial introductory chapter which provides a framework and summary of key policy concepts and indicates which of these can be used in which cases. Featuring updated and new cases, the third edition of this formative textbook is suitable for graduate and undergraduate classrooms across disciplines and fields.
Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context. An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions that help us understand and diagnose Canada’s health care system and to clarify which proposed changes are likely to improve it - and which are not. This book provides background information to clarify such concepts as: determinants of health; how health systems are organized and financed (including international comparisons); health economics; health ethics; and roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders, including government, providers, and patients. It then addresses some key issues, including equity, efficiency, access and wait times, quality improvement and patient safety, and coverage and payment models. Using analysis rather than advocacy, Deber provides a toolkit to help understand health care and health policy.
Almost Home is a rich and comprehensive study of the policy questions underlying the shift in medical care from hospitals to homes and communities, a change that is reshaping Canadian health care policy and politics. Using document analysis, and interviews with government officials and other key stakeholders in the policy community, the authors analyze the policy content and process of five different attempts to reform home and community care in Ontario between 1985 and 1996, as introduced by governments from three different political parties. As this study demonstrates, the ongoing shift from the Medicare 'mainstream' of physician and hospital care to the Medicare 'margins,' entails not only a shift in the site of care but an erosion of the post-war state's role in health care. While Medicare continues to resist political and ideological forces aimed at shrinking the state's role, cost constraints, demographic pressures and technological advancements are increasing pressure on home and community care. The authors have made a significant contribution to research on policy development and change. Their rigorously analytical approach fills a major gap in book-length literature on long-term health care in Canada.
Almost Home is a rich and comprehensive study of the policy questions underlying the shift in medical care from hospitals to homes and communities, a change that is reshaping Canadian health care policy and politics. Using document analysis, and interviews with government officials and other key stakeholders in the policy community, the authors analyze the policy content and process of five different attempts to reform home and community care in Ontario between 1985 and 1996, as introduced by governments from three different political parties. As this study demonstrates, the ongoing shift from the Medicare 'mainstream' of physician and hospital care to the Medicare 'margins,' entails not only a shift in the site of care but an erosion of the post-war state's role in health care. While Medicare continues to resist political and ideological forces aimed at shrinking the state's role, cost constraints, demographic pressures and technological advancements are increasing pressure on home and community care. The authors have made a significant contribution to research on policy development and change. Their rigorously analytical approach fills a major gap in book-length literature on long-term health care in Canada.
Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context. An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions that help us understand and diagnose Canada’s health care system and to clarify which proposed changes are likely to improve it - and which are not. This book provides background information to clarify such concepts as: determinants of health; how health systems are organized and financed (including international comparisons); health economics; health ethics; and roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders, including government, providers, and patients. It then addresses some key issues, including equity, efficiency, access and wait times, quality improvement and patient safety, and coverage and payment models. Using analysis rather than advocacy, Deber provides a toolkit to help understand health care and health policy.
Raisa Gorbacheva... Eta zhenschina stala znakovoj figuroj ne tolko perestrojki, ne tolko kontsa proshlogo veka, no i novejshikh vremen v tselom. Olitsetvoreniem rodnoj strany, zamechatelnym, talantlivym polpredom ee v mire. Zhenschina, lomavshaja zakosnevshie stereotipy i samootverzhenno, po zovu serdtsa, a ne tolko po roli suprugi Prezidenta, pervoj Ledi SSSR, shedshaja na pomosch obezdolennym, i osobenno - detjam. Gorjacho, schedro i beskorystno podderzhivala ona rebjatishek, stradajuschikh zabolevaniem krovi, - kak budto predchuvstvuja i sobstvennyj ukhod ot etoj strashnoj bolezni.Kak to i byvaet v zhizni, ee zachastuju ne ponimali i dazhe ne prinimali. No vremena, sami dela, postupki i mysli etoj nezaurjadnoj i po-nastojaschemu krasivoj lichnosti vse postavili na svoi mesta. Posle smerti Raisy Maksimovny proshlo bolee dvukh desjatkov let, i otnoshenie k nej ne tolko v mire, no i v nashem rossijskom protivorechivom obschestve stanovitsja vse teplee i sostradatelnee. R.M. Gorbacheva mechtala o tom, chtob ee ponjali - i v pervuju ochered sootechestvenniki i sootechestvennitsy. I eti vremena prikhodjat.V janvare 2022 goda ispolnilos 90 let so dnja ee rozhdenija. K etoj znachitelnoj i odnovremenno pechalnoj date priurochen i nastojaschij sbornik, tsentrom kotorogo javljaetsja kniga samoj Raisy Maksimovny "Ja nadejus...", kotoruju ona uspela vypustit v 1991 godu i kotoraja nashla shirokij dushevnyj otklik vo vsem mire. Sjuda zhe voshli fragmenty knig i vospominanij M.S. Gorbacheva, a takzhe intervju Raisy Maksimovny poslednikh let, vospominanija mnogikh vydajuschikhsja ljudej, politicheskikh dejatelej, soratnikov, predstavitelej iskusstva i prosto tekh, kogo do glubiny dushi tronula tragicheskaja sudba etoj zhenschiny, raskryvshej, v chastnosti, novye gorizonty i dlja mnogikh-mnogikh zhenschin v Rossii i v mire.Sbornik podgotovlen sotrudnikami Gorbachev-Fonda pod rukovodstvom M.S. Gorbacheva.
A middle-aged man around fifty, with his clothes all worn out and a black grimy jacket, entered the room. He looked like a foreigner. He kept looking around him like he was lost. I couldn't recall having seen him in the school before. "Good morning, are you Raisa's father," I asked him hastily. "No, I'm her uncle..." he offered hesitantly. "As of last night, Raisa is missing," he added in a whispering voice, his eyes constantly starring the floor. "Please come in to my office," I told him stunned. "I notified you people since yesterday afternoon that Raisa skipped the last two hours of school. I called her mom and let her know. Weren't you worried?" I couldn't help my judgmental tone. My astonishment had been turned into full-blown anger. "We were busy, we couldn't deal with it," he answered in a sheared tone. I detected a hint of guilt in his words. Who wouldn't feel guilty if he had been neglectful enough to lose his child? "You couldn't? And what exactly are you doing here now?"....A social worker can decipher the dangerous signs at once: neglect of a minor, social deprivation, suspicious companions, loneliness. And then comes an explosion, violent and unstoppable. The child departs from the home in search of a better future, that most of the times never comes. Most, if not all, of the times, it brings hardships and suffering both to the kid and his parents. This book deals with the anxious quest of the young - adolescent to belong to a group, to be socially acceptable, even if they have to sacrifice all their inhibitions on the altar of social integration. The protagonists-teenagers are discovering the hard world that surrounds them, perceiving its dangers and try coping with the difficulties of adulthood. Most of the time they are helpless, alone, with dubious moral companions and fall into the trap of drugs. Sometimes they return back home to even harsher conditions and angry - punishable parents. This is the story of Raisa and Nicholas, but also the story of so many teenagers all around us.T
A daughter, a granddaughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a cousin, an aunt, and an immigrant to this beautiful country of the USA. This is Raisa Premysler.Rhapsody of the Hummingbird tells the story of Raisa's many roles and adventures as well as stories of the lives and love and sacrifices of those who came before. Those who are gone but never forgotten. Those who remain here and are incredibly cherished. It's a book about one woman's life and everything that has come with it: Love and HateBeauty and Ugly LiesFriendship and Loss Beliefs and DisbeliefsLaughter and TearsDreams and DissolutionHappiness and SadnessExcitement and DisappointmentWisdom and IgnoranceIt's a life story
How could a woman be three times accused of witchcraft and go on running a successful farmstead? Why would men use a frying pan for cattle magic? Why did witches keep talking about the children? What kind of a relation did Finnish witches have with authority and power? These are among the questions Raisa Maria Toivo addresses in this study, as she explores the gender implications of the complex system of household management and public representation in which seventeenth-century Finnish women and men negotiated their positions. From specific case studies, Toivo broadens her narrative to include historiographical discussion on the history of witchcraft, on women's and gender history and on early modern social history, shedding new light on each theme. Toivo contributes to the on-going discussion in the European historiography about whether the early modern period witnessed an improvement, decline, or simply alteration in the conditions of oppression of women within patriarchal households by using a multidimensional set of roles that could be adopted by women. Finally, she demonstrates convincingly that members of the solid peasant class were not only subject of the newly forming states, but also avid users of the court system, which they manipulated and put to work in the interests of their own individual, household, and collective affairs.
Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form-artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between-were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Rexer recounts the history of these illicit and ubiquitous images and elucidates their immense cultural and artistic reach. Rexer focuses in particular on the ways that nude photographic imagery influenced some of the greatest authors of the period, including Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, and Émile Zola, and sets their work against historical records and nonfiction print sources to tell the story of evolving perceptions of nude photography. In the period immediately after photography's invention, nude photographs were vitally connected to the questions of art and artistry, particularly with regard to photography's aspirations to high cultural status. By the end of the century, however, as production and sales expanded internationally and as photographs of nudes flooded the streets and shops, proliferation of these pictures was increasingly viewed as one of a host of social problems plaguing France. Illustrated with nearly ninety period images, The Fallen Veil offers the first full treatment of the photographic nude in the nineteenth century and considers how this history continues to influence many of the same questions we ask today about art, pornography, and the relation between the two.
Striking and big-hearted, Glass Jaw depicts the grit and glamor of women's boxing based on the poet's time training as a fighter in New York City. Beginning on the ropes, fighting back against the limitations of gender, Raisa Tolchinsky situates us within the dynamic context of the boxing gym, through both a chorus of named women boxers and a single fighter battling for her selfhood. In a Dantean reimagining, we follow the boxer as she descends into the hellish "rings" of an abusive relationship with her coach. In a count-down from 34 to 1, sputtering at times, the fighter gets closer and closer to the heart of her brutal, solitary metamorphosis. Winner of the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, Glass Jaw explores a quest as spiritual as it is physical through poems that are muscular, musical, ecstatic.
200 traditional Ukrainian recipes and home remedies, taught step by step as if grandma were at your side. Wild immigrant survival tales. Click on "Look Inside" at top of book cover photo for contents.Borshch, including VegetarianAn entire Holubtsi (Cabbage Rolls) chapterAn entire Varenyky (Perogies) chapterHoney CakeKhrustyky: Sweet Nothings, Ears, Angel WingsMakivnykTraditional Holiday customs and recipes for Easter & ChristmasKolach: Circle of Life BreadCompared to erotic games in the village bath & shoplifting live turkeys in your bloomers, immigrant life is beyond boring. So Baba (Grandma) is brewing up Old Country customs in her kitchen. She'll teach you to make delicious Ukrainian dishes the traditional & The Lazy Way, sabotage frenemies with garlic, & utter chilling Slavic curses such as, "May you be kicked by a duck "Between tales of magical encounters with Nature spirits & steaming bowls of borshch is the true confession of the author's elderly neighbour: she murdered her abusive husband.Imagine a mouth watering Honey Onion Sauce that recalls competing with cave bears and wild bees, and the seductive magic of preparing sweet delights for the Apple Harvest Blessing. In black & white text. -Ukrainian Canadian Congress Special Pick-Top 3 Ukrainian Cookbook & Cultural Book since 2015"Your book has us all laughing hysterically & uncontrollably Daikoyu=thank you " Capital Ukrainian Festival, Ottawa"Baba's Kitchen is a good companion to Savella Stechishin's book Traditional Ukrainian Cookery]. We will be presenting copies as awards at our year end dinner.." Los Angeles Ukrainian Cultural CentreIn a rollicking, entertaining read, Baba's Kitchen will lead you into the complex soul of Eastern Europe's Indigenous people.Ukrainian-Canadian Raisa Stone spent decades collecting outrageous stories and life advice, plus 200 recipes and home remedies from survivors of Soviet and Nazi terror---including her family. Raisa's narrator, Baba, is a composite of these invincible souls.Ukraine has been continuously inhabited by civilized, immensely inventive people for 44,000 years.For excerpts, video/audio clips and more, visit: www.ukrainiansoulfood.caUkrainians: first tamed horses, invented pants (for riding ), the bow and arrow, built homes from mammoth bone & pyramids older than Egypt's, & created Europe's first democratic constitution.Shamanic practices that sparked the original werewolf and Amazon legends (the latter documented by Greek physician Hippocrates) combine with recipes & customs reaching back to the Neolithic era._____________*Warning: 18+ Restricted*Wicked acts with honey and raspberries, pirates, cowboys, Kozaks, bald men, bad boys and mounted police officers.You'll laugh, you'll cry _____________________________________"I enjoy reading the stories as well as learning authentic Ukrainian dishes to cook for my family. I will be sharing these recipes with my daughters and teaching them how to cook A lovely book with something for everyone. You feel like Baba is turning the pages with you " Mattie Romanyshyn, Belfield, South Dakota"I found many recipes that I had been searching for since my time in the Carpathians in 2010. The one I looked for the most was a mushroom soup that to my pleasant surprise was here. I have cooked for friends and family since I received the book and 4 people have loved it so much they have ordered copies of their own. The humor is Ukrainian and part of what made me fall in love with Ukraine." Roberto Marquez, New Mexico
Early modern Finland is rarely the focus of attention in the study of European history, but it has a place in the context of northern European religious and political culture. While Finland was theoretically Lutheran, a religious plurality – embodied in ceremonies and interpreted as magic – survived and flourished. Blessing candles, pilgrimages, and offerings to forest spirits merged with catechism hearings and sermon preaching among the lay piety. What were the circumstances that allowed for such a continuity of magic? How were the manifestations and experiences that defined faith and magic tied together? How did western and eastern religious influences manifest themselves in Finnish magic? Faith and Magic in Early Modern Finland shows us how peripheral Finland can shed light on the wider context of European magic and religion.
Panca Wnnnnmat. A capella no-rycckn. B knnge reub ndet o nnteratorax n nnteratyrnbix gerorx, edecb cobranbi ecce, nnteratyrnar krntnka n nnterbb kak c roccnncknmn nncatenrmn, tak n c nncatenrmn-emngrantamn.In diesem Buch handelt es sich um die Schriftsteller von 19., 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, und auch um die zeitgenossische russischsprachige Literatur und russischsprachigen Literaten, die heute in Russland sowie im Exil leben.
Panca Wnnnnmat, Et dbi a la prima. Cbornnk racckaeob "Et dbi a la prima" obrean cbonm naebannem termnny, ynotrebnremomy b xnbonncn. A la prima - texnnka bbictrogo nanncannr et da na nnenere. Knnga coctont ne dbyx uacten, b nerby bowen unkn earncobok "Akbarenn detctba", eto boebrawenne b CCCP 50-x, 60-x godob nrownogo beka. Btorar uactb naebibaetcr "Emngrantckne nactenn", uto gobornt camo ea cebr
Early modern Finland is rarely the focus of attention in the study of European history, but it has a place in the context of northern European religious and political culture. While Finland was theoretically Lutheran, a religious plurality – embodied in ceremonies and interpreted as magic – survived and flourished. Blessing candles, pilgrimages, and offerings to forest spirits merged with catechism hearings and sermon preaching among the lay piety. What were the circumstances that allowed for such a continuity of magic? How were the manifestations and experiences that defined faith and magic tied together? How did western and eastern religious influences manifest themselves in Finnish magic? Faith and Magic in Early Modern Finland shows us how peripheral Finland can shed light on the wider context of European magic and religion.
‘Experience’ has become a catchword in scholarly as well as political debates. Raisa Maria Toivo convincingly contends in this open access book that while it is often used to denote something ‘simple and real’ instead of something theoretical or idealistic, experience is in fact much more than self-evident truth. Toivo makes the case that people have different experiences depending on their situation in life – be that their age, gender, social status, wealth, ethnicity and more; that as they try to express their experiences, they often find that not everyone is allowed to experience in the same ways. For example, in 17th-century Finland it was accepted that a young girl of 12 talked with angels, but an old woman of 50 was sentenced of witchcraft and a farmhand of 25 was deemed delusional when they all said they had met with divine spirits: experience was guided by identity and social status, but also by power relationships and cultural scripts. Expressed Experience in Early Modern Northern Europe explores different ways of communicating and curating experience. The first part of the book explores how experiences were spoken and written of in lower court records, while the second part looks at visual communication in church murals. The book goes on to examine spatial settings of experience in landscapes and public buildings, such as churches and public roads or private houses. The fourth part explores embodied experience and corporeality. Toivo draws all this together in a conclusion which reflects on how experience was curated through a combination of communication means.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Tampere University Library.
