Nursing NUR403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: World Health Organization
10 May 2016
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Overarching principle: all canadians deserve equitable access to safe, cost-effective, and appropriately prescribed medicines at a fair and affordable cost to patients and society as a whole. Prescription drugs are among the most important components of modern health care. When prescribed and used appropriately, they can prevent and cure disease, and extend and improve the quality of life. Pharmaceuticals are so essential to health and well- being that the world health organization has declared that all nations should ensure universal access to necessary medicines. Organization also recommends that this be accomplished through pharmaceutical policies that work in conjunction with broader systems of universal health coverage. Consistent with these recommendations, every developed country with a universal health care system provides universal coverage of medically necessary prescriptions. Canada has a universal, comprehensive public health insurance system for medical and hospital care our medicare system.
