HLTC43H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Living Wage, Proportional Representation, Unemployment Benefits
Document Summary
Lecture 11: the future health policy and health care in canada . State intervention to ensure quality: polis is about society caring about family and it"s about equity. State makes sure there is access to certain goods. Aim is to reduce poverty and inequality: canada has been more of a polis than the us. Minimal state role freedom from government , deregulation: us is a market driven society, high inequality. Supreme court of canada federal court of canada. Canada, uk: overlap between cabinet, parliament (lower house), Upper house (house of lords uk), and senate (canada). Municipal, provincial and federal governments have role in health policy: all levels of government have a specific role in health. At the municipal level it"s public health: have to deal with vaccine and sanitation. The welfare state: impact on the health of populations. Key development in modern capitalist societies in post-wwii era (1950-1970). State intervention in social and health provision.
