HLTA03H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Sub-Saharan Africa, Medical Error, Well-Founded Relation
26 Apr 2018
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Gillett chapter 14: ethical issues in health and healthcare. Increasing use of complementary and alternative medicine can create an ethical challenge. In the case of mental illness, social stigma can compound existing factors that might act as a barrier to care. In canada, the main challenge regarding at the all access to healthcare relates to primary care physicians. While enrolled in the number of physicians in the country is rising faster than the population, these doctors are on equally distributed throughout the country. And most public health care systems, the bulk of care is provided as the primary care level. Case study: brain drain in sub-saharan africa: sub-saharan africa is one of the areas most affected by outgoing medical migration. Medical error: one of the most contentious recent issues to emerge is medical error- malpractice, malpractice: position error that breaches are legal contract with the patient.
