HLTA02H3 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Textbook Notes
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Chapter 3: the emerging public health systems in canada. Public health policy and practice are concerned with preventing injury and illness within a population. It was only during the last two or three decades of the 20th century that substantial efforts were made to reform the. Canadian medical care system and turn it into a health care system. Recently, health promotion has become a goal health policy. Health promotion encourages and empowers individuals to make healthy choices and discourages them from making unhealthy choices. The growing emphasis on health promotion, combined with more traditional concerns about illness prevention, is. Our main focus in this chapter is the new public health and the emergence of a new health system in canada. Modernization involves a number of major structural and institutional transformations to societies. The development of modern, science-based public health and health care systems is generally seen as one indicator of the modernization process.
