Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Allopathic Medicine, Canada Health Act, Primary Healthcare
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Chapter 13- power, politics, and values: the canadian health-care system. Roy romanow summarized the core values of canada(cid:495)s health care system: equity, fairness and solidarity. Ideology- in a political context, refers to those beliefs and values that relate to the way in which society should be organized, including the appropriate role of the state. Unalienable human right- a right considered to inhere in a person as a human being. The development of medicare in canada come to interest again. )t wasn(cid:495)t until after the great depression, that the government health insurance help pay for doctors(cid:495)s salaries and other medical expenses. (ealth problems can afford it. At that time canada(cid:495)s health care system was dominated by private worsened bc of communicable diseases and influenza spread quickly. In the 1930s and 40s, canadians put their faith in allopathic medicine bc no one medicine like in the u. s today.