HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Outpatient Surgery, Tl;Dr, Public Administration
Document Summary
29 march 2018 / health policy ; critical theories. How health care system research strengthens health system. Define key features of canadian health care system. Discuss critical theories of social justice/application to health. Identify ways to evaluate a health care system. Publicly financed system of public health care insurance. Single payer system, (cid:494)single payer(cid:495) = each provincial government. Focal point for disease prevention and control. Regulation of pharmaceuticals, consumer products, pest management. Deliver most of canada(cid:495)s health care services. Provide medically necessary hospital and doctors services. Provide services to workers injured on the job. There are 13 provincial and territorial medical care and hospitalization insurance systems. The canadian health care system has been in constant transition. 1945: federal government put forward a plan for universal medical care and hospital services insurance program. 1947: saskatchewan first province-wide publicly financed and administered hospitalization insurance program. 1972: all the provinces signed on to the medical care services.
