ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Evidence-Based Medicine, Socialized Medicine, Medicalization
6 Sep 2018
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Nightingale: doctors shed unwanted jobs to nurses (pecking order of responsibilities, world war ii expanded the need for health care in canada. Great need for extended health care after wwii. Was an empathy over the country. non-profit, charitable, etc. (this is how our health care system became initiated); idea that we had to be charitable and look after each other. Nuns are the ones who layed this down: during the 1960"s sask. initiated new thought about health care = results in universal health care with the provincial and federal governments taking responsibility, nursing expands and attempt to unionize. These things define where ppl sit along the hierarchy, define kind of work you"re doing: health care now promote health & disease prevention. Eg. flu season -> encouraged by media to get flu shot. this is put out by the govn"t. pharmacist entitled to give you flu shot free of charge. Prevention: try to make sure ppl stay well.
