HLTH245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collaborative Partnerships, Tablet Computer, Mobile Device

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH245
• Professor: Chris Perlman

Document Summary

Adequacy of physical and human resources: finding the appropriate balance between the two, adjusted by federal, provincial and territorial governments, depending on, healthcare practices, evolving technologies, hta, needs of canadians, different demographics, regions, people. There was a surplus of healthcare providers: governments worked with schools to reduce the supply (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s: Shortages of healthcare providers: physicians and nurses were in demand. Increased educational enrollment was needed and international recruitment: less canadian trained doctors leaving the coutry, varying success here. Privately funded professionals were not affected by these trends: doctors, pharmacists, some optomotrists. Variations in density of health professionals across canada is due to. I(cid:374) the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)4(cid:1004)"s (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1010)(cid:1004)"s there (cid:449)as a de(cid:373)a(cid:374)d for i(cid:374)patie(cid:374)t (cid:272)are: people really wanted hospital services. I(cid:374) the (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1011)(cid:1004)"s: the investment in hospitals began to slow down (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)"s (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)"s. Consolidation is to make something better by bringing things together to make a new better whole.