Health Sciences 2045A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Preventive Healthcare, Socialized Medicine, Health Promotion
16 Sep 2016
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Two tier health care challenges because some want to be able to pay for services that have a long wait time to move ahead on the list. There is currently no coverage for everything. Risk of buying healthcare as a product vs accessing it. What is a health system it is more of a system to support us when our health is bad. Its to help keep you healthy like health promotion and protection. Hopefully integrative to work with connections instead of separated from other parts. Lalonde report human biology, environment, lifestyle, and health care organization. This is the first time we defined health as determinants instead of the who definition. Public health keeping people healthy and giving people the skills they need. From more of a biomedical approach to putting health in the hands of the people. The traditional who definition leaves out a lot of people.
