HLTH 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Health Promotion, Pecking Order
3 Feb 2018
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Primary care : care delivered through a family physician + team of professionals who provide preventative, acute, and chronic care services, team can include nurses, physicians, dieticians, social workers, e. g. routine care, health promotion, maternity. Doctors : medical school enrollments frozen in the 90s but now increasing, number of md degrees expected to increase. Discrepancies/issues with pay : paid based on number and type of services, provinces with stronger economies pay better (ab) and where there is demand (on, fee-for-services/private contractors. Internationally trained physicians : foreign-trained physicians face years of evaluation and most compete for residency spots. Rural vs. urban : fed and provincial governments have attempted to entice physicians to live and work in rural areas, federal government provides loan forgiveness to doctors who go to remote areas. Impacts/health outcomes : little correlation between number of doctors and health outcomes, canada has fewer than oecp average but has better than average outcomes.
