LEADER 04374nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910782081303321 005 20230912133155.0 010 $a1-282-86047-X 010 $a9786612860478 010 $a0-7735-7022-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773570221 035 $a(CKB)1000000000521346 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000284487 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228401 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284487 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268811 035 $a(PQKB)10089094 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400477 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331200 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141873 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL286047 035 $a(OCoLC)929121543 035 $a(DE-B1597)656777 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773570221 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/2s0h6r 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400477 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331200 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245545 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000521346 100 $a20020814d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSteps on the road to medicare$b[electronic resource] $ewhy Saskatchewan led the way /$fC. Stuart Houston 210 $aMontreal ;$aIthaca $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2002 215 $ax, 163 p. $cill., ports. ;$d23 cm 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-2550-5 311 $a0-7735-2366-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [129-154]) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAbbreviations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tForeword -- $tIntroduction -- $tSaskatchewan Hospitals: Off to a Slow Star -- $tDr Seymour -- $tMunicipal Doctors and Municipal Hospitals -- $tDr Ferguson and Tuberculosis -- $tSigerist and Pensioners? Care -- $tSwift Current Health Region -- $tMedical College and University Hospital -- $tProvince-wide Hospitalization -- $tInnovations in Psychiatry -- $tHigh-voltage Cancer Treatment -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aMedical care$zSaskatchewan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMedical policy$zSaskatchewan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aHealth care reform$zSaskatchewan$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aMedical care$xHistory 615 0$aMedical policy$xHistory 615 0$aHealth care reform$xHistory 676 $a362.1/097124/0904 700 $aHouston$b C. Stuart$g(Clarence Stuart),$f1927-$01464668 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782081303321 996 $aSteps on the road to medicare$93800903 997 $aUNINA