HLST 4110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: World Health Report, World Health Organization, Aneurin Bevan

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 4110
• Professor: Claudia Chaufan

Document Summary

You may remember that in our second meeting we mentioned that in the year 2000, the. We also identified problems, not necessarily in the categories themselves (after all, who would argue that "respecting persons" is not a desirable goal?) but in how these categories were measured. While access to medical care is obviously critical, as. Be that as it may, there is in my view value in evaluating whether a health system contributes to better health. On the other hand, if we consider mortality amenable to treatment among men, then. Sweden scores worse than canada at least by oecd 2008 reporting 2002/3 be pleased that canada"s health system is doing acceptably well on average and measurements. We can only speculate why this is so, but likely the answer requires further research. Be that as it may, it is always true that any health system can be improved. We return to this point later in the module.