FCSS*1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Health Care In Canada, Electronic Health Record, Canada Health Act
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Chapter 10: health, illness, and health care as social problems. What is health: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. It is a biological, personal, and social problem since: Attributed to increase in chronic disease: medical sociology: field that examines the social context of health, illness, and health care, biomedical view of medicine: emphasizes western scientific principles. Views human body as a machine that requires repair. Promotes therapeutic intervention to cure disease/injury: holistic view of medicine: health as well-being state of existence. Characterized by happiness, prosperity, and satisfaction of basic human needs. Not simply absence of illness or injury. Development of canadian health care system: features of national health care system emerged with the following pieces of federal legislation: Hospital insurance & diagnostic service act 1957: provide insurance for hospital, diagnostic services. Medical care act 1966: provide insurance for medical services. Canada health act 1984: prohibited extra billing by doctors or hospitals.
