HLTHAGE 3AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canada Social Transfer, Canada Health Act, Flexner Report
17 Nov 2017
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Origins of the medical care system in canada: the first canadian medical system various medical/religious traditions of aboriginal peoples, dating from 1795 many attempts were made by allopathic doctors to get legislation passed that. In the early years of settlement there were few trained doctors would establish medical dominance: the first medical school was established in at mcgill university in 1824, theories about disease were still varied and not scientifically based. In 1859 homeopathy was the first profession to be legalized and to establish a board to examine and license practitioners: the flexner report 1910. Implementation of recommendations changed the face of medical care in canada. In 1912 the canada medical act was implemented. It standardized licensing procedures across canada: coincided with the flexner report of 1910, by 1920 the hospital based, curatively oriented, technologically sophisticated medical system that we know today was firmly established. Transfer: current medicare funding, current federal support to provinces and territories (2017/2018) to receive.
