Health Sciences 3400A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Canada Gazette, Health Policy, Tax Assessment
14 Dec 2017
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Lecture 11 - health policy and the law. A system of rules created and enforced through social or governmental institutes to regulate behaviour: not only making rules also enforcing them, differentiates between social and governmental institutes. A binding custom or practice of a community; a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized or enforced by controlling authority o. Seen in aboriginal law: don"t have a list and book of laws like we do, laws and rules are more entrenched in the culture and community. A legal system is the most explicit, institutionalized, and complex mode of regulating human behaviour. Laws provide rules of conduct for citizens to abide by as a trade-off for living in a society o. Trade off - in return of abiding to these laws we get the benefits of living in this country. In canada we get health care, the rcmp, and other police services. Laws ensure safe and peaceful society: don"t necessarily ensure.
