HLTH245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: National Microbiology Laboratory, Genome Canada, Critical Role

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH245
• Professor: Elena Neiterman

Document Summary

Federal and provincial govs have reduced tax rates in recent years. Health care costs continue to rise at rates that exceed economic and government revenue growth, raising continuing concerns about the fiscal sustainability of health expenditures, financing through the public sector. Canada is a constitutional monarchy based on a british-style parliamentary system. Two orders of government; federal and provincial (which bear the principal responsibility for a broad range of social policy programmes and services including the bulk of publicly financed and administered health services) Life expectancy has increased but two main causes of death in canada are cancer (malignant neoplasms) and cardiovascular disease. United states exerts considerable cultural and economic influence on the daily life of. Most of the population is concentrated in southern urban centres that are close to the. Majority of the country"s aboriginal (first nation, inuit and m tis) citizens live on rural reserves, land claim regions in the arctic or in the poorer city neighbourhoods.