HSCI 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Quality Assurance, Palliative Care, Health Maintenance Organization
6 May 2015
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Hsci 305 lecture 8 primary health care reform. Genetic predisposition to heart disease or diabetes is not more likely to exist among people in prince george than in burnaby, or among people earning minimum wage compared to millionaires in the province. Health equity: absence of unfair and avoidable or remediable differences in health among population groups defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically. Health inequities: health differences which are socially produced; systematic in their distribution across the population; and unfair. Identifying health difference as inequitable implies appeal to ethical norms because systematic and socially produced, can be modified: problems with current health care system, primary health care reform, ups and downs of phc reform. Ffs encourages physicians to provide many services quickly; short visits. Breaks body into parts and overlooks social circumstances: addresses specific symptoms in specific body parts. High costs for the system, less appropriate care for patients.
