Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 3 - Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Health Canada, Canada Health Act

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Maxwell Smith

Document Summary

Healthy public policy considers the impacts of health within a specific policy. In canada, health care services are delivered by the government/employees of the government. Delivery of services is rarely done by the government. Canada has a public as opposed to private health system (refers to who pays for the health system) Canada has a privately delivered but publicly financed health care system. Gives different levels of power to the provinces and territories. Many court cases have said that health care largely is the jurisdiction of provinces, only a few things fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government none are solely responsible for the provision of health care services. Health issues primarily change at the provincial level. There are 13 different health systems that are guided by the laws of the health canada act. They introduced safe injection sites in vancouver as a health issue. The federal government wanted to pass a law that would regulate assisted reproductive.