HLTC02H3 Chapter Notes -Health Care In Canada, Cervical Cancer, Health Canada
Document Summary
Canada has been a model for advances in health care generally and women"s health specifically. The successes, failures, and contradictions related to women"s health in canada offer lessons for improving health as well as a basis for comparative work in other countries. Canada has the ninth highest life expectancy in the world for both sexes, only 2. 1 years behind japan (81. 4). Life expectancy for high-income women was 1. 6 years longer than for low-income women, and five years longer for men. Women"s health and the canadian health care system. Access for women who migrate to canada is complex and involves multiple barriers. Among self-employed women, less than half have supplementary health coverage. Women on average, earn less than men, have lower incomes and are more likely to live in poverty, therefore they face greater financial barriers when health care costs are privatized. Gendered health inequalities and health problems can only be remedied if they are recognized.
