HLTA02H3 Chapter 10: Chapter 10

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15 Apr 2011
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Chapter 10: health care systems in evolution- ma ry e. wiktorowics. Theory of justice: those who design rules put themselves behind a veil of ignorance where their position in resulting distribution is unknown. Political institutions and historical perspective: health care emerged as political issue in canada and us as early as 1930s, not until 1960s that basis of each system formulated through their respective legislative processes. U. s: policy reforms based on new laws must be passed by majority of member in senate and house of. The introduce policy proposals that would not have been raised by the 2 traditional parties (liberals and. Information technology (it): electronic medical records (emrs) allowing physicians and health professionals to access patient information from centralized medical record database through communication network: con: different providers use different information systems. If new medicine provides novel and effective therapy for a condition considered breakthrough product and granted higher price.