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Canadian Health Law & Policy (5th Edition)

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Provides guidance on the laws, regulations, programs, plans and practices affecting conditions of work and employee benefits in Ontario. A wide range of topics is covered including: hiring, employment standards, termination, pension plans and retirement savings, health care benefits, disability benefits, non-traditional job structures, leaves and flex-time, job sharing, contract workers, telework, human rights issues, health and safety and privacy in the workplace Features useful charts, checklists – including a...

The Right to Health at the Public/Private Divide: A Global Comparative Study

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Through a comparative global study of countries from all continents representing a diversity of health, legal, political, and economic systems, this book explores the role of health rights to advance greater equality through access to health care. Does health care promote equality, or does it in fact advance the opposite result? Does inserting the idea of “the right to health” into health systems allow the reinsertion of public values into...

Rasouli and the Elephant in the Room

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Colleen M. Flood & Catherine Deans, “Rasouli and the Elephant in the Room” (2013) Impact Ethics. “The Supreme Court of Canada has now released its judgment in the Rasouli proceedings with striking differences between the majority and minority decisions. Mr Rasouli was diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state and his treating physicians, believing he had no further prospect of recovery, wished to withdraw life support. The applicability of...

The Data Divide: Managing the Misalignment in Canada’s Evidentiary Requirements for Drug Regulation and Funding

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“The Data Divide: Managing the Misalignment in Canada’s Evidentiary Requirements for Drug Regulation and Funding” (with Patrick Dyke) (2011) – accepted by UBC Law Review. PR. 33 pages (in Word format) Canadian expenditure on pharmaceutical drugs is skyrocketing at a rate which outstrips every other major health care spending category. This is a product of many diverse factors, foremost of which is the glut of ‘me-too’ drugs which provide little or no...

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