HLTHAGE 1BB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Botulinum Toxin, Palliative Care, Health Professional
26 Jan 2015
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Foundational principles of the canada health act: publicly administered, comprehensive, universal, accessible, portable. Home care services are not publicly insured in the same way as hospital and physician services. Provinces and territories provide and publicly fund home care services at their own discretion" . 4. 8 hprd needed to improve quality of care: bc: 2. 6 to 2. 7 hprd, on: 2. 6 hprd. Cost of long-term/nursing home care (fernandes & spencer, 2010) In 2008, a non-married senior with an average income in: new brunswick pays ,550/year (highest, quebec pays ,157/year, yukon pays ,395/year (lowest) Models of health & health care: medical model, social model, health promotion model. Different sets of assumption about: the origins of sickness, how sickness should be alleviated, what types of professionals should be involved in the treatment of sickness, what counts or constitutes health . Over-medicalization: at the calgary women"s show and while passing by the botox.
