Making Waves magazine, Autumn 2007

[Discussion list for COMM-ORG]

From:  Don McNair <mcnair at cedworks.com>

This autumn, Making Waves: Canada's Community Economic Development 
Magazine offers a Special Edition on community control of health care. 
Our long-standing national debate over the merits of "public" or 
"private" health care is a false dichotomy. In this edition, 12 writers 
present the case for vastly increasing the capacity and authority of 
local (non-medical) people to design, deliver, and evaluate the health 
services available to them and their neighbours.

Despite time-worn ideological differences, co-operators, community and 
Aboriginal health activists, medical professionals, and CED 
practitioners find themselves in agreement that health care will not 
improve without substantial direction - and outright ownership - by 
organized citizenry. How then to make that shift of power and 
responsibility a reality, not an anomaly? What roles then remain to 
government and to private business?

The complete contents are available in PDF from 
www.cedworks.com/waves.html. Apart from subscribers, a nominal charge 
applies to print copies on this occasion. A complete French-language 
version is in preparation.

Apologies for cross-postings.

Don McNair
Making Waves: Canada's CED Magazine
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