TY  - BOOK
AU  - Houston,C.Stuart
TI  - Steps on the road to medicare: why Saskatchewan led the way 
SN  - 9780773570221
AV  - RA412.5.C3 H67 2002eb
U1  - 362.1/097124/0904 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Montréal [Que.]
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Saskatchewan
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Health care reform
KW  - Delivery of Health Care
KW  - history
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Health Care Reform
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Soins médicaux
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Politique sanitaire
KW  - Services de santé
KW  - Réforme
KW  - Médecine
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Diseases
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Health Care Issues
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Health Care Delivery
KW  - Public Health
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Disease & Health Issues
KW  - fast
KW  - rvm
KW  - Santé, Services de
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Saskatchewan Hospitals: Off to a Slow Start -- 2 Dr Seymour -- 3 Municipal Doctors and Municipal Hospitals -- 4 Dr Ferguson and Tuberculosis -- 5 Sigerist and Pensioners' Care -- 6 Swift Current Health Region -- 7 Medical College and University Hospital -- 8 Province-wide Hospitalization -- 9 Innovations in Psychiatry -- 10 High-voltage Cancer Treatment -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N; Op -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y
N2  - In Steps on the Road to Medicare Stuart Houston shows that Saskatchewan has led in the development of publicly funded health care since 1915. Among Saskatchewan's many firsts were the payment of municipal doctors, the development of municipal hospitals, and advances in the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis - then the leading cause of death - that culminated in January 1929 with universal free diagnosis and treatment of TB. Given this background of leadership, it was logical for North America's first social democratic government, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, to go further, beginning with medical care for pensioners and widows. This was quickly followed by a universal, comprehensive health care plan, instituted in the Swift Current region in July 1945, two years before Britain began such a program. Universal, province-wide hospitalization insurance was put in place in January 1946. Advances in psychiatry consisted of the first inclusion of psychotic patients in an open psychiatric ward in a general teaching hospital in 1955, while cancer firsts included the first government-sponsored cancer clinics, the first full-time cancer physicist, and the world's first use of calibrated betatron and cobalt-60 machines for treating cancer. Why was Saskatchewan so consistently first in health care? Houston argues that not only was the population both altruistic and ingenious with a well-developed spirit of co-operation but that its leaders, including Maurice Seymour, R.G. Ferguson, Harold Johns, and Tommy Douglas, showed unusual foresight. He details how from 1915 through 1962 government responded quickly to public need and suggests that it should be equally responsive today
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