Health Sciences 1002A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Committee For The Defence Of Democracy, Woodrow Lloyd, Emmett Matthew Hall
14 Jul 2016
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Hs1002 - social determinants of health 2014-15. Guiding questions for film: bitter medicine: the birth of medicare , national film. Began in saskatchewan in the summer of 1962. Sas was mostly originally populated by immigrant (peasant) farmers. Life on the homestead of the canadian prairie was dangerous because of the distance from adequate medical care and neighbors. Women began a center for free care for tb. The land was hard to work for the farmers. Relationship changed between doctors and patients: became impersonal. Patients became customers because of doctors moving to cities. Since tommy douglas"s election in 1944, some form of medicare seemed inevitable. Medicare election of 1960 pitted the government"s medicare idealism against the medical establishment"s fear that state medicine in sas would be a beachhead for the rest of north america: government won a strong majority. Post-war economic boom made the doctors want more money that that people had more financial security.
