Health Sciences 3040A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Local Health Integration Network, Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Canadian Food Inspection Agency

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3040A/B
• Professor: Shannon Sibbald

Document Summary

Lec 1 intro to course and health care systems. These groups include: first nations people living on reserves; inuit; serving members of the canadian forces; eligible veterans; inmates in federal penitentiaries; and some groups of refugee claimants. Also health protection and regulation, consumer safety, disease surveillance. The ministry of health and long-term care is working to establish a patient-focused, results-driven, integrated and sustainable publicly funded health system. The mi(cid:374)ister of health is respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)le for (cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d i(cid:373)pro(cid:448)i(cid:374)g the health of canadians. This is supported by the health portfolio which comprises: canadian food inspection agency, canadian institutes of health research, health canada, patented. Medicine prices review board, public health agency of canada. Ontario has 14 lhins, only ontario has lhins. are the health authorities responsible for regional administration of public healthcare services, mandated with planning, integrating, and distributing provincial funding for all public healthcare services at a regional level.