Health Sciences 3040A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Primary Healthcare, Fiduciary, Health Promotion

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 3040A/B
• Professor: Keri Selkirk

Document Summary

Health care in ontario: a primer for the board of directors of community governed. Boards must understand ontario"s health care system and how it will influence organizational decisions. Focuses on the physical, mental, and spiritual well-being of an individual while considering cultural competencies while its delivery is driven by social determinants of health. Should also include other areas of medicine such as health promotion and public policy, making it multi-faceted. Involving communities in the delivery of primary health care is important. Primary health care the first point of contact a person has w/ the health care system. Social determinants of health the condition in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. Boards must work w/ the community"s best interest and fulfill community development, vision, mission, organization, and financial oversight. Boards delegate management of operations to executive directors which helps the board to focus only on decision making and policy forming eventually policy making boards are formed.