Why saskatchewan led the way
Description About the Author More Details. Description The co-operative spirit of citizens in twentieth-century Saskatchewan nurtured innovation in health care and health policy. Stuart Houston and Merle Massie document the range of Saskatchewan leadership on Canadian, North American, and world stages: municipal doctors and municipal hospitals, the first Red Cross Outpost Hospital in the British Empire, tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment, a successful pilot comprehensive regional health care plan, government-sponsored cancer clinics, innovative LSD and patient-oriented treatment for psychoses, the first full-time cancer physicist in Canada, and the world's first concerted clinical use of the betatron and Cobalt in cancer treatment.
They show how North America's first social-democratic government, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation - elected in and led by the incomparable Tommy Douglas - created the blueprint for comprehensive health care and how sequential steps on the road to medicare were implemented quickly and within budget. When federal support for national hospitalization became available, Saskatchewan could afford to initiate medicare in Other Canadian provinces soon followed Saskatchewan's lead.
Updated to engage with current debates, 36 Steps on the Road to Medicare navigates the history of medicare and demonstrates the spirit of innovation that Canada will need to save it. Ask Seller a Question. Laird Books offers a wide selection range in books. Specialities include Canadian books and out-of-print books. Glossary Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: fine A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws.
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Health care services may have declined, but Canadians are not ready to abandon the universally accessible, publicly funded system. We still take pride in our federal Canada Health Act. Stuart Houston reminds us how and why the medicare system was conceptualized and enacted. In Steps on the Road to Medicare, Houston argues that Saskatchewan co-operative community spirit and individualism were the greatest contributing factors to why this province led the way towards universal medicare in Canada.
Houston chronicles numerous Saskatchewan 'firsts' - such as municipal doctor legislation, free diagnosis [End Page ] and treatment of tuberculosis, a health plan for pensioners and widows, among others - and describes the role of individuals like Maurice Seymour, Robert George Ferguson, Allan Blair, Harold Johns, and Tommy Douglas who introduced these initiatives.
These men sought a publicly funded system to provide better health care against acute, infectious diseases like typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, tuberculosis and to initiate preventative health strategies for Saskatchewan residents, and eventually for all Canadians.
In the concluding chapter, Houston challenges us to 'emulate the co-operative spirit, altruism, and ingenuity' demonstrated by the Saskatchewan people towards maintaining the original universal health care vision and ideals in meeting many of today's challenges to Canada's health care system. This is a brief and selective introductory account of Saskatchewan medicare initiatives. Houston has not drawn extensively from the secondary source literature on the topic or presented any new primary material for this account.
The chapters are often uneven and disconnected. Individuals leaders are emphasized more than co-operative community spirit Saskatchewan rural people , which is never fully expanded upon.