HSCI 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Public Health, Long-Term Care, Palliative Care
17 Mar 2018
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Despite no active expression of racism -> it is still prevalent (subtle indications that make it easier to ignore health care needs/miscommunication -> slower responses [language barrier]) Health canada officials admit they faced a gap in providing on-reserve services to children. Long wait times (up to 30 hours) and overcrowding leads to increased risk of medical errors: budget cuts, beds. Access to operating rooms and hospital beds and better use of primary care providers. Slow in specialization and poor distribution of physicians: use family doctors to their full capacity (pop needs and available resources, allow private players into the system (perform low risk surgery) Intervention after disease process begun but before it(cid:495)s symptomatic. First point of consultation with general practitioner or family physician) walk-in or emergency) Services provided by medical specialists and acute care for brief but serious conditions. Includes some individual-level public health and health promotion services (not who but the type of service that makes up primary care)
