Health Sciences 3071A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Diabetes Canada, Straits Air Freight Express, One Health
17 Dec 2016
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Lecture One Health Determinants
Health
• Refers to the desirability of maintaining or achieving a positive state of overall well
being
• This class focuses on health
Health Care
• Refers to medical services offered by physicians and hospitals
• The federal government has numerous responsibilities relevant to health
• The provinces are responsible for delivering health care to the majority of Canadians
o All ten provinces have different health care systems
o Ontario has the OHIP card
What Determines Your Health?
• A complex interplay of different things
o Social factors
o Cultural factors
o Biological factors
Our Health Care System
• Key people
o David Butler and Gregory Taylor
▪ The Chief public health officers of PHAC
o Arlene King and David Williams
▪ The Chief medical officers of health of OMHLTC
o Graham Pollett and Chris Mackie
▪ The Chief medical officers of health of MLHU
o All medical doctors
• Federal Level
• Focuses on poverty reduction, aboriginal health and food
security
o PHAC and the National Collaborating Centres
▪ The PHAC is the public health agency of Canada
▪ Focuses on the key determinants of health
▪ Created in 2004 in response to growing concerns about the capacity of
Caada’s puli health syste to atiipate ad espod to puli
health threats
• Post SARS break out
▪ Their mission statement is
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• To promote and protect the health of Canadians through
leadership, partnership, innovation and action in public health
• Prevent disease and injury, and promote and protect national
and international public health
▪ Their role is to
• Promote health
• Prevent and control chronic diseases, injuries and infection
diseases
• Respond to national health emergencies
• Serve as a database for sharing information
• Strengthen intergovernmental collaboration on public health
• Facilitate national approaches to public health
o Health Canada
▪ Another federal level of health intervention
▪ Works with PHAC to create a two pronged federal response to health
and sustainable development issues in Canada
▪ Health Canada works more on a personal health care approach
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o Sustainable development
▪ Biological factors
• Determinants of health
▪ Social factors
• Social determinants of health
▪ Cultural factors
• Socio cultural determinants of health
o CIHR
▪ The Canadian Institutes of Health Research
▪ It has thirteen pillars
• Aborigial people’s health
• Aging
• Cancer research
• Gender and health
• Circulatory and respiratory health
• Genetics
• Health services and policy research
• Human development, child and youth health
• Infection and immunity
• Musculoskeletal health and arthritis
• Neurosciences, mental health and addiction
• Nutrition, metabolism and diabetes
• Population and public health
o Three of these pillars focus on SODH (bolded)
▪ Focuses on capacity building, partnerships, and research
o CDA
▪ Canadian Diabetes Association
• Their goals include
o Basic needs
▪ Safe air water food and neighbourhoods
o Social Inclusion
▪ Sense of belonging, learning, participating in
decisions about our health
o Healthy Living
▪ Support and information
o A System for Health
• Canada’s Health Goals
o Our children reach their full potential
▪ They grow up happy, healthy, confident and secure
o Safe air, water, food and neighbourhoods
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