Solutions
Public Administration
Must be administered and operated by a non-for profit basis by
public authority
The records and accounts are publicly audited
Comprehensiveness
Healthcare must cover all insured services provided by
hospitals, physicians, or dentists, and made available with all
equal opportunity
Universality
All residents are entitled to healthcare services. All residents
must register with their respective government.
Immigrants can apply. They may have to wait less than three
months and there is 100% coverage.
Portability
If an individual move provinces, they still have access by their
home jurisdiction. Three months before coverage is transferred.
If you're out of Canada, there's coverage for a short period of
time in case of emergency
Accessibility
Oh discrimination on the basis of age, health status, or financial
circumstances
Reasonable access means a service when and where available, if
,service is not provided near you you are granted access to one
closest to you
The federal government
Sets and administer national principles
Provincial and territorial governments
Develop and administer their own health care insurance plans
Primary care
Focus is on personal health services
Primary health care
Entry point of contact into the healthcare system
Includes primary care and health, education, nutrition, maternal
and child healthcare, family planning, immunizations and
control of locally endemic disease
Barriers to primary health care
Individual-level barriers
Practice-level barriers
System-level barriers
Four pillars of primary health care
Teams
Access
Information
Healthy living
Settings for health care delivery: institutional sector
,- Hospitals
- Long-term care facilities
- Psychiatric facilities
- Rehabilitation centres
Settings for healthcare delivery: community sector
Public health
Physician offices
Community health centers, and clinics
Assisted living
Homecare
Adult day support programs
Community and voluntary agencies
Occupational health
Hospice and palliative care
Parish nursing
Epp Report- Achieving health for all
Socio environmental approach to health
Acknowledge disparities in Health
Identify three major health challenges
Strategies for population health
Population health approach
Epidemiological logical data to determine etiology of health and
disease
Identifies key determinants of health
Toronto charter on the social determinants of health
, Social and health policies resulted in, increase social and
economic, any qualities and health disparities
Social determinants are important for health
Recognizes a societal responsibility for reducing health
disparities
BScN Program Definition of Environment
Complex multidimensional
Social and physical components
Internal and external
Ever-changing
natural physical environment
- air, water, soil, climate
Built physical environment
Housing, water/sewer systems, urbanization
Cultural social environment
Beliefs, practices, ideologies
Economic social environment
Income, employment status, stock marketing
Political social environment
Government, policies, special interest groups
What is global health
The optimal well-being of all humans from the individual and
collective perspective, and is considered a fundamental human
right which should be accessible to all.