Just medicare : what's in, what's out, how we decide/ edited by Colleen M. Flood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flood, Colleen M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Law and legislation--Canada.

Medical care.

National health insurance--Law and legislation--Canada.

National health insurance.

Medical policy--Canada.

Medical policy.

National health insurance--Law and legislation.

Medical care--Law and legislation.

Canada.

Physical Description:

vii, 458 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2006.

Contents:

Part 1 Constitutional and Administrative Law Challenges to the Boundaries of Medicare

1 What Is In and Out of Medicare? Who Decides? / Colleen M. Flood, Carolyn Tuohy, Mark Stabile 15

2 Charter Challenges and Evidence-Based Decision-Making in the Health Care System: Towards a Symbiotic Relationship / Donna Greschner 42

3 Misdiagnosis or Cure? Charter Review of the Health Care System / Martha Jackman 58

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 80

Part 2 Access to Abortion and Reproductive Health Services

5 Abortion Denied: Bearing the Limits of Law / Sanda Rodgers 107

6 Protecting Fairness in Women's Health: The Case of Emergency Contraception / Joanna N. Erdman, Rebecca J. Cook 137

7 Achieving Reproductive Rights: Access to Emergency Oral Contraception and Abortion in Quebec / Robert P. Kouri 168

Part 3 Access for the Vulnerable: Case Studies from Aboriginal Health and Mental Health

8 Jurisdictional Roulette: Constitutional and Structural Barriers to Aboriginal Access to Health / Constance MacIntosh 193

9 The Rural Aboriginal Health Gap: The Romanow Solutions? / Janesca Kydd 216

10 Access to Treatment of Serious Mental Illness: Enabling Choice or Enabling Treatment? / Sheila Wildeman 231

Part 4 Rationing Access: The Role of the Physician Gatekeeper

11 The Legal Regulation of Referral Incentives: Physician Kickbacks and Physician Self-Referral / Sujit Choudhry, Niteesh K. Choudhry, Adalsteinn D. Brown 261

12 The Costs of Avoiding Physician Conflicts of Interest: A Cautionary Tale of Gainsharing Regulation / Richard S. Saver 281

Part 5 Free Trade Agreements: Strengthening or Undermining Access to Health Care?

13 The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Its Implications for Health Care / Roxanne Mykitiuk, Michelle Dagnino 309

14 Patient Mobility in the European Union / Andre Den Exter 331

Part 6 Manufacturing Demand for Access: The Role of the Media and the Commercialization of Research

15 The Power of Illusion and the Illusion of Power: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Canadian Health Care / Patricia Peppin 355

16 The Media, Marketing, and Genetic Services / Timothy Caulfield 379

17 Commercialized Medical Research and the Need for Regulatory Reform / Trudo Lemmens 396

18 Grasping the Nettle: Confronting the Issue of Competing Interests and Obligations in Health Research Policy / Jocelyn Downie 427.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0802080022

OCLC:

67856477

Publisher Number:

9780802080028