SOC239H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Health Care In Canada, Health System, American Hospital Association
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Chapter 11 health care in other countries. Convergence hypothesis: the thesis that health care systems become increasingly similar over ime because of similar scieniic, technological, economic and epidemiological pressures. In recent decades globalizaion has expanded access to such knowledge as doctors increasingly use medical journals and internet resources from around the world and as medical and pharmaceuical corporaions market new technologies internaionally. Doctors in many diferent countries are adoping the same technologies and placing similar economic pressures on their health care systems. As populaions have aged around the world, health care systems have had to shit more toward treaing chronic degeneraive diseases rather than treaing acute diseases. Globalizaion of knowledge has increased people"s expectaions regarding health and health care. This shit has forced health care systems to pay greater atenion to paient saisfacion and choice. Equity in access: the ability to obtain health care services on the basis of need rather than ability to pay or any other characterisic.
