Health Sciences 3400A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Palliative Care, Pharmaceutical Care, Occupational Safety And Health

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Kathleen Gamble

Document Summary

Public health: in canada, public health is generally identified with the following six discrete functions: population health assessment, health promotion, disease and injury control and prevention, health protection, surveillance and emergency preparedness and epidemic response. Provincial ministries of health all have public health branches (some even have a separate public health agency or department) with responsibility for the six discrete functions of public health. In addition, most ministries of health have launched major population health initiatives in recent years. Cpha canadian public health association & phac public health agency of canada. Inpatient drugs are dispensed by hospitals without charge to patients as part of medicare. Most residential care is privately funded whereas most high-acuity long-term care providing 24-hour a day nursing supervision is publicly funded by the provincial and territorial governments. In some provinces, a majority of publicly funded long-term care beds are in profit-making facilities.