Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Emmett Matthew Hall, Woodrow Lloyd, Neoliberalism
13 Oct 2016
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Guiding questions for film: bitter medicine: the birth of medicare , national film. What does the term medicare refer to? (see text) Universal health program funded by federal provincial and territorial government. Poverty, bad weather, dust, inhospitable environment, far from neighbours and medical care, mutual aid and self reliance. Women of saskatchewan took it upon themselves to come up with techniques of health care when the government were unable to do so/did not want to. Women and nurses developed the first free health care facilities concerning tuberculosis, which they were highly worried about before/during the war. The emergence of the view that health care is a right. Financial difficulties of voluntary hospitals,the second world war ensured an emergency medical service. Farmers in remote areas levied a charge to each other in order to guarantee an annual retainer for a doctor to live there. These doctors became the norm for providing medical care especially during the great depression.
