[Health Sciences 3101A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (33 pages long)
1 Dec 2016
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More litigious (more prone to go to law to settle disputes) society: all professionals under greater legal scrutiny (critical observation) - american concept (what not to do) More suits against health, counselling and care practitioners and others: 4x ^ in suits 1976-2015, 65x ^ in damages and costs. Law playing greater role, particularly for administrators. Some of the conventional responses to the increasingly challenging legal environment are necessary, costly and cumbersome (complicated = inef cient) Child abuse; native residential school scandal, violence against women; bernardo, privacy: ood of complex, piecemeal legislation, particularly in regard to mandatory reporting and privacy. No attempt to rationalize, consolidate or streamline. Legislation overlaps and duplicates: expansion of health rubric; new regulated hc professionals, politicizing of health care; wait times, dr fees, hospital closing, lobbying for causes. Sunday, october 9, 2016: increasing scal restraint. Feds share of hc costs decreased, prov share increased, limiting funding for all other provincial services.
