HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canada Health Act, Medical Model, Service Canada
18 Apr 2016
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Objecive: to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of canada to facilitate reasonable access to health services without inancial or other barriers . Hospital insurance and diagnosic services act of 1957. Foundaional principles of the canada health act: public administraion, comprehensiveness, universality, portability, accessibility. Focus is on care provided by physicians and hospital care. Dates back to the 1957 hospital insurance and diagnosic services act. Uses a limited or narrow deiniion about what counts as a medically necessary service. Provinces and territories provide and publicly fund home care services at their own discreion . Care that is provided in someone"s home. Implicaions of cha for home care & long-term. Amount of subsidies/funding from provinces to faciliies. In 2008, a non-married senior with an average income in: In 2008, a low-income non-married senior (living of of oas and gis): From nunavut would have ,039 of their income remaining ater paying nursing home expenses.
