HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Biomedicine, Allopathic Medicine, Herbalism
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Dr. fife: what was the major determining variable for canada to be number 1. Highest educated women in the world (a grade 11 level of education) More women in post secondary education than the usa. When you educate a man you educate one person, when you educate women you educate a society. We fell to 3 and 6 place because: The way in which indigenous people are treated in canada. Child poverty is high in canadian society: the social reality of universal health care an ingrained value in our society. Running in competition with church were convents and nuns. Nuns were selfless people: educated children, medical contributions (for as little as possible, and sometimes none) Population of everyday people were strongly supporting the nuns. France sent over many of these nuns to the new world: they set up schools and started to build hospitals. Tommy douglas: father of universal health care in canada.