HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spontaneous Remission, Medical Error, Canada Health Act
10 Mar 2016
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Health lecture 4-quality of health care (chapter 15) Know healthcare systems to: improve, ensure people are geing the services they need. Understand the development of the health system in canada. To become knowledgeable about how the health care system works. To understand the implicaions of system theory in relaion to health services quality of care and populaion outcomes. To idenify hot topics in the current health system. People have access to healthcare even if they cant aford it (equal ability to access) Healthcare is one of canada"s largest industries (linked to government and service), ranked as a source of pride. A social good: needed in adequate amts to maintain a funcioning and producive society (linked to educaion) Health system deiniion: all the aciviies whose primary purpose is to promote, restore and/or maintain health, the people, insituions and resources, arranged together in accordance with established policies, to improve the health of the populaion they serve.
