MHR 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ammunition Ship, Halifax Explosion, Deinstitutionalisation
2 Apr 2016
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Early years: - people possessed by evil spirits ( insane ) family as the major institution providing health, educational, and social care. From mid-18th century, in quebec, the roman catholic church provided care for people requiring special assistance. 19th century public pressure to provide special education for deaf and blind. Some significant events: 1917 explosion of the ammunition ship mont blanc in halifax harbour, two world wars. 1914 workmen"s compensation act initially to provide for lost wages later medical assistance and rehabilitation. 1951 touchstone conference provinces reassert role in rehabilitation with federal government planning and coordinating national rehabilitation programme. 1961 vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons act federal government cost sharing with provinces to provide services. Also medicare acts in 1957, 1961. Theoretical perspectives: biomedical model, economic model, sociopolitical model. Social goals focus on accommodation and the need to provide a basic level of medical care and health services. Most prevalent prior to world war i.
