Screen LibraryUpstream medicine : doctors for a healthy society /
"When patients visit a clinic or hospital, they bring stories of the everyday life conditions that made them sick in the first place - stories about where they work, live, and play; stories about income, food security, and housing. Doctors today are listening. Personal stories and patient encou...
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| Group Author: | ; ; ; ; |
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| Published: |
Purich,
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| Publisher Address: | Vancouver, BC : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"When patients visit a clinic or hospital, they bring stories of the everyday life conditions that made them sick in the first place - stories about where they work, live, and play; stories about income, food security, and housing. Doctors today are listening. Personal stories and patient encounters illuminate the social determinants of health, that is, the upstream source of what too often become complex, painful, and expensive downstream problems. Upstream Medicine features interviews by medical students with leading physicians whose practice brings evidence-based, upstream ideas to life. They show how we can change the practice of medicine to build a healthier society."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 241 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781895830873 1895830877 |
| Index Number: | RA418 |
| CLC: | R199.711 |
| Call Number: | R199.711/U69 |
| Contents: |
Rejecting indifference in the face of death / Healthy peoples and healthy discourse : talking Indigenous health / Being First Nations in Canada : the rigged game / From the clinic to the capital : advocating for systemic change / Shared decision-making : an alternative to physician-centered care / What's a life worth?, Naheed Dosani / A system that puts health as its ultimate goal : stories and ideas for change / A profound sense of responsibility : thinking large and small in the inner city / Every clinical story has a social story / A new vision for our planet and our health / Recharged : the energy of a politically engaged physician / Habitat : considering the bigger picture of our patients' lives / On motivation, mentors, and Medicare / Driven upstream : the quest for a healthy society / Embracing complexity / Just care : from medicine to politics in pursuit of equity / Bethany Philpott -- It's our duty / Ben Langer -- Spaces to live, work, and play / Bringing Upstream to the mainstream / Expanding perspective : a geriatrician on leadership, time with patients, and system change / Emergency doctor by choice, defender of the public healthcare system by necessity / |