HLST 1011- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
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Study guide equity refers to fairness in accessing and receiving services from the healthcare system. access refers to the ability to gain entry to the system and its services. Every canadian resident and citizen is entitled to access to the healthcare system. Accessibility is one of the five key principles of the canadian healthcare system. Systemic: something which affects the entire body. systemic" factors are underlying social conditions which have an impact on how the system works and how people have (or don"t have) access. The medical care act passed into legislation in 1966. Saskatchewan"s medical care insurance bill, legislated into being in 1961 and brought into effect in 1962. The canada health act is federal legislation that specifies the conditions and criteria with which the provinces and territories must abide in order to receive funding for their own health care systems through the canada health transfer.