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                  ALPHABETIC INDEX OF ISSUES AND PEOPLE 
                 

                                    -B-
   Banting and Best                                   <22health -Banting>
   Barr Body                                          <22health -Barr>
   Barr, Murray                                       <22health -Barr>
   Bethune, Norman                                    <22health -Bethune>
   Blue Baby Operation                                <22health -blue baby>
   Bricker, Trudy                                     <26health -Bricker>
   Britain, National Health                           <12health -medicare>

                                    -C-

   Canada's health care system, too expensive?        <13health -disruptive>
   Canada's Health Care System                        <01health -budget>
   Canada's health system costs relative to U.S.      <14health -Evans>
   Canada's health system compared to U.S.            <14health>
   Canadians, accident statistics                     <04health -accident>
   Canadians, drinking statistics                     <04health -alcohol>
   Canadians, eating habits                           <04health -kitchen>
   Canadians, life expectancy                         <04health -vary>
   Canadians, living longer                           <04health -generally>
   Canadians, smoking less                            <04health -nutshell>
   Cardiac Pacemaker                                  <22health -pacemaker>
   Child psychiatrist shortage                        <25health -frustration>
   Children First                                     <25health -ren Fir>
   Colds, cost of treatment                           <08health -treating>
   Collip, J.B.                                       <22health -Collip>
   Consumer choice about treatments covered           <08health -Medicaid>
     see also                                         <01health -consumers>
   Cooper, Joel                                       <22health -Joel>
   Coronary bypass, many not necessary                <08health -coronary>
   Curare                                             <22health -Curare>
   Cystic fibrosis, gene responsible for discovered   <20health -gene>

                                    -D-

   Docs in a Box                                      <06health -docs>
   Donsbach, Kurt                                     <26health -Donsbach>
   Drugs, spending on                                 <10health -soared>

                                    -E-

   Educated patient, how to become one                <08health -educated>
   Elderly, cost of health care                       <30health -expensive>
   Elderly, healing at home                           <30health -blind>
   Elderly, health care                               <30health>
   Elderly, instituitionalization                     <30health -unbearable>
   Elderly, Statistics Canada figures                 <30health -stat>
   Elderly, Victoria Health Project                   <30health -ia Heal>
   Elderly, Wellness Centres                          <30health -wellness>
   Electron microscope                                <22health -electron>
   Endocrine hormones                                 <22health -endocrine>

                                    -F-

   Family practise, costs of                          <16health -cost>
   Family practise, income from                       <16health -grosses>
   Fee-for-service                                    <06health -opposed>

                                    -G-

   Genetics                                           <22health -genetics>
   Gimbel Eye Centre                                  <15health -Gimbel>
   Gimbel, Howard                                     <15health -Howard>

                                    -H-

   Hanswille, Gerhard                                 <26health -Hanswille>
   Harvard study on heart disease victim wait         <14health -Harvard>
   Health care and the Constitution                   <03health -Consti>
   Health care and the provinces                      <03health -sole>
   Health care specialists, shortage of               <18health>
   Heparin                                            <22health -Heparin>
   Holistic medicine and fraud                        <26health -fraud>
   Holistic medicine bunk but popular                 <26health>
   Holistic medicine, Canada Health Monitor poll      <26health -poll>
   Holistic medicine, energy medicine                 <26health -electric>
   Holistic medicine, homeopathy                      <26health -homeopathy>
   Holistic medicine, iridology                       <26health -iridol>
   Holistic medicine, its scope                       <26health -focus>
   Holistic medicine, on increase                     <26health -Stewart>
   Holistic medicine, popularity                      <26health -fringes>
   Holistic medicine, remedies dangerous, useless     <26health -Loma>
   Holistic medicine, why popular                     <26health -Ohlhauser>
   Hoskins, Eric                                      <24health -Hoskins>
   Hypothermia                                        <22health -hypother>

                                    -I-

   Insulin                                            <22health -insulin>
   Interactive video for patients                     <08health -video>

                                    -J-

   Jensen, Bernard                                    <26health -Jensen>

                                    -L-

   Lithotripters, cost of                             <10health -litho>
   Lung transplants                                   <22health -lung trans>

                                    -M-

   Magnetic resonance imaging, costs of               <10health -magnetic>
   McMaster University's medical school, its approach <24health -phil>
   McMaster University, entrance requirements         <24health -premedical>
   McMaster University, are its doctors different?    <24health -ter-trained>
   Medical Care Insurance Act                         <28health -chain>
   Medical discoveries in Canada                      <22health>
   Medical technology, marketing of                   <10health -marketing>
   Medical technology, no government review of 95%    <10health -review>
   Medical technology, not fully evaluated            <10health -estimates>
   Medical technology, testing of                     <10health -bureau>
   Mental health treatment, the waiting list          <25health -countless>
   Mental health treatment takes a backseat           <25health>
   Mental health, adolescent crime                    <25health -crime>
   Mental health, Alberta treatment                   <25health -Alberta>
   Mental health, British Columbia                    <25health -British>
   Mental health, Children First                      <25health -ren Fir>
   Mental health, few treatment choices               <25health -few>
   Mental health, Ontario health plan                 <25health -Ontario>
   Mental health, Reaching for Solutions              <25health -reaching>
   Mustard, Bill                                      <22health -Mustard>

                                    -M-

   National Health and Margaret Thatcher              <12health -Thatcher>
   National Health and self-governing trusts          <12health -self-gov>
   National health objectives, do we need them?       <01health -objectives>
   National Health, changes in                        <12health -April>
   National Health, critics of                        <12health -critics>
   National Health, history of                        <12health -medicare>
   National Health, the delay                         <12health -current>
   Noble, Robert                                      <22health -Noble>
   Northern Canada, health record                     <29health -abysmal>
   Northern Canada, healers                           <29health -aboriginal>
   Northern Canada, heart disease                     <29health -heart>
   Northern Canada, housing and health                <29health -ventil>
   Northern Canada, nursing stations                  <29health -nursing>
   Northern Canada, smoking                           <29health -epidemic>
   Nurse practioner, history of                       <19health -scene>
   Nurses, as replacements for general practioners    <19health -Stoddart>
   Nurses, as second-class citizen                    <19health -second>
   Nurses, day-night treatment of                     <19health -night-and>
   Nurses, giving them more responsibility            <19health -solid>
   Nurses, in North                                   <19health -Tuktoy>
   Nurses, relation to health care costs              <19health -mounts>
   Nurses, roles change with time and place           <19health>
   Nurses, study of compared to doctors               <19health -Spitzer>

                                    -P-

   Pablum                                             <22health -Pablum>
   ParticipAction's success story                     <04health -started>
   Pearson, F.G.                                      <22health -Pearson>
   Penfield, Wilder                                   <22health -Penfield>
   Pepper Commission                                  <13health -Pepper>
   Perfusionists, shortage of                         <18health -heart-lung>
   Physician, challenging advice                      <08health -challenge>
   Physicians for a National Health Care              <13health -Steffie>
   Physicians, are there too many?                    <01health -new doctors>
   Physicians, are they driving health costs up?      <06health -driving>
   Physicians, family practise                        <16health>
   Physicians, how should they be paid?               <06health -alternative>
   Physicians, oversupply                             <06health -over>
   Physicians, payments to                            <06health -soared>
   Physicians, relationship to nurses                 <19health -gods>
   Physicians, revolving door                         <06health -revolving>
   Physicians, rural practises                        <17health -village>
   Physicians, salary                                 <06health -salary>
   Physicians, say they're political scapegoats       <06health -scape>
   Poverty, and health care                           <28health>
   Poverty, Canadian programs                         <28health -health gap>
   Poverty, cancers cardiovacular diseases            <28health -cardio>
   Poverty, infant mortality                          <28health -mortality>
   Poverty, native health                             <28health -tuber>
   Poverty, Ontario health strategy                   <28health -Rae>
   Poverty, prenatal classes                          <28health -prenatal>
   Poverty, social aspects of health                  <28health -vaccinate>
   Poverty, suicide                                   <28health -suicide>
   Poverty, Tommy Douglas                             <28health -Douglas>

                                    -R-

   Radiation therapy technologists, shortage of       <18health -world-wide>
   Ray, Peter                                         <22health -Ray>
   Reaching for Solutions                             <25health -reaching>
   Research funding being cut                         <20health>
   Research, corporate funding                        <20health -fosters>
   Research, cuts to funding                          <20health -lopped>
   Research, funding disjointed                       <20health -disjoint>
   Research, funding misspent                         <20health -discrep>
   Research, funding realtive to GNP                  <20health -GNP>
   Research, funding track record of Mulroney         <20health -Mulron>
   Research, infrastructure crumbling                 <20health -strapped>
   Research, recommendations for increased funding    <20health -councils>
   Research, underfunded                              <20health -chronic>
   Research, who gets the money?                      <20health -peer>
   Researchers, demoralized                           <20health -demoral>
   Revolving door medicine                            <06health -revolving>
   Riordan, Jack                                      <20health -Riordan>
   Roland, David                                      <26health -Rowland>
   Roy, Leo                                           <26health -Leo>
   Rural practises and residents                      <17health -undergrad>
   Rural practises, incentives                        <17health -program>

                                    -S-

   Services Employees International Union             <13health -mushy>
   Seventh Day Adventist                              <15health -Seventh>
   Sickness prevention                                <01health -sickness>
   Sir William Osler                                  <22health -Osler>
   Surgical procedures, which should get funding?     <01health -procedures>

                                    -T-

   Technologists, Canada raids U.K                    <18health -Zeal>
   Technologists, job opportunities                   <18health -job op>
   Technologists, shortage of and backlog caused      <18health -Princess>
   Technologists, shortage of                         <18health -skilled par>
   Technologists, U.S. raiding Canada                 <18health -raids>
   Technologists, why shortages?                      <18health -cite>
   Texas Heart Institute                              <14health -concern>
   Tissue plaminogen activator                        <10health -tissue>
   Total Health '91                                   <26health -Total>
   Treatment, more people seeking it                  <08health -across>
   Tsui, Lap-Chee                                     <20health -Tsui>

                                    -U-

   U.S. health care and lack of insurance             <13health -no heal>
   U.S. health care reform, Gallup poll               <13health -Gallup>
   U.S. health care response to money                 <14health -clink>
   U.S. health care, amount of red tape               <14health -account>
   U.S. health care, change needed?                   <13health -surveys>
   U.S. health care, cost of                          <13health -basic>
   U.S. health care, lack of insurance                <14health -no health>
   U.S. health care, skyrocketing premiums            <13health -premium>
   U.S. health care, task forces looking into         <13health -task forces>
   Unnecessary services                               <06health -unnecess>
   User fees and emergency visits                     <01health -after-hours>

                                    -V-

   Vinca Alkaloids                                    <22health -vinca>

                                    -W-

   Walk-In Clinics                                    <06health -first>
   Worton, Ronald                                     <22health -Worton>

                                    -X-

   X-ray enhancing liquids                            <10health -liquids>



