EC250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Canada Health Act, Health System, Social Insurance
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Health system: refers to those aspects of our society that have an important bearing on the health of individuals and population as a whole (includes goods + services and activities intended to improve or maintain health) Includes other activities unrelated to health such as transportation but which nonetheless have health effect. Health and health systems very broad because various factors impact it such as government policy, community factors, etc. Measures of international health are: expectancy at birth (how many years a person born today can expect to live) Infant mortality: the rate of deaths before age 1 per 1000 live births. Life expectancy of births in canada was 80. 7 years in 2006 were at top of organization of economic of cooperation and development (oecd), but still 2 years less than expectancy of japan. Infant mortality canada doesn"t do as well at the bottom half of oecd and rate almost twice japans.
