Recent literature considering the state of the social work profession has primarily focused on
concerns about deprofessionalization. This article provides an overview of the literature on …

Four meanings of medical necessity have emerged, evolved, and dominated past and
current health policy debates about the appropriate level of service coverage under …

PROLOGUE: Canada's health insurance system, the nation's most popular publicly financed
service, has for years demonstrated a capacity to deliver universal, high-quality medical care …

Abstract Though some argue that medical power is declining, others disagree. In particular,
Freidson assets that medicine is being restratified with medical elites retaining control over …

Push! offers a historical account of the forces behind the integration of midwifery in Ontario,
including public interest in funding midwifery services and the impact of political lobbying …

This paper analyzes data from three large-scale surveys of Canadian physicians conducted
over the past decade to examine the politics of a cohort of recently established family …

The history of C anadian Medicare is reviewed to demonstrate the extent to which non‐
universal alternatives almost became the norm in C anada. While this historical survey …

Within international healthcare systems the neglect of mental health and challenge in
shifting from institutional to community care have been recurrent themes. In analysing the …

Global expenditure budgets in the fee‐for‐service physician sector create management
problems for both funders and physicians. Global expenditure cap policies must be …

Conceptually, clinical guidelines and professional autonomy have a paradoxical
relationship. Despite being the quintessence of medical knowledge at the corporate level …