Health Sciences 3400A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canada Health Transfer, Canada Health Act, Ontario Health Insurance Plan

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3400A/B
• Professor: Kathleen Gamble

Document Summary

State of complete physical, mental, and social well being. Decisions, plans and actions to achieve specific health care goals within a society. The ideas we try to get to help our healthcare system. Focuses on improving access, quality, and care within a system. A combo of health care institutions, supporting human resources, financing mechanisms, info systems, organization structures, and management structures. Exist within social, cultural, political contexts . therefore how they function varies from place to place. Building blocks of a healthcare system has many parts and complex. It"s a way we speak about a particular issue. Concerned with what governments do, why they do it, and what differences it makes to us. It is about political/social sciences and the ability to describe, analyze, and explain public policy. Policy is a discourse meanings it"s a formal/lengthy discussion of a subject. A form of political discourse that takes place on all levels of government (municipal, provincial, federal)