NFDN 1001 Unit 2
Health Care in Canada
The Canadian Health Care System
• We, as Canadians, own our health care system.
• “Publically Funded”
• Comprehensive, Accessible and Universal
• All health services are
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NFDN 1001 Unit 2
Health Care in Canada
The Canadian Health Care System
• We, as Canadians, own our health care system.
• “Publically Funded”
• Comprehensive, Accessible and Universal
• All health services are provided by health professionals to eligible residents with reasonable access
Approaches to Health Care in Canada
• Provinces and Territories are responsible for
providing care to the residents.
• Money provided by the Federal Government
• Province/Territory decision on how money is spent.
• Tommy Douglas (1947): “Father of Socialized Medicine”
• Developed 1st Provincial Hospital Insurance Plan
• Focus on curing the disease, fixing the problem
• Post WWII: increased funding for new hospitals
• Heavy reliance on in hospital care
• Health care was reactive not proactive
• 1970’s moved away from medical model
• 1974-1981 “The Lalonde Report”
• Promoted individual responsibility for health
• Focus not on seeing health problems as physiological
• Looked at a person’s behavior (Lack of exercise, smoking, unhealthy eating (Canada’s Food Guide), substance abuse)
• Lalonde:
• Introduced health promotion & disease prevention
• “Health is within the individuals control then poor health is lack of knowledge” therefore developed education initiatives (Let’s watch )
• Epp Report 1986 (Canadian Minister of Health) (Box 2.2 Page 26)
• Broadened the Lalonde report by expanding on health promotion
• Health is more than medicine
• Stressed health of lifestyle, nutrition, physical environment
• Health Promotion was born!!
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