Everyday experiences of implicit rationing: comparing the voices of nurses in California and British Columbia
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This article compares managed care organizations in the United States and British Columbia. The authors, analyzing data from group interviews conducted with nurses in British Columbia and California, argue managed care in both countries does not live up to its promises of more efficient and cheaper health care, and maintain medical care is rationed by early discharge policies and staff reduction.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2001
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Delivering the 'new' Canadian midwifery: the impact on midwifery of integration into the Ontario health care system
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The impact of the integration of the profession of midwifery into Ontario's provincial health care system is discussed. Midwifery changed to a more bureaucratically organized profession and its educational model from an apprentice-based approach to a baccalaureate degree program. The midwifery model of practice was retained, however.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2000
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Understanding the social organization of maternity care systems: midwifery as a touchstone
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The article examines professional variance of midwifes in maternity care facilities in the United Kingdom, Finland, the Netherlands and Canada.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2005
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