HE302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Care In Canada, Canada Health Act, Services Hospital
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Week 1 introduction to the course and the canadian health care system. First hospital: 1639, hotel-dieu de quebec, founded by augustinian friars. For 300 years until mid-1900s: most hospitals are run by religious or charitable organizations. First medical school: 1829, now mcgill"s medical school. Residential schools for indigenous children: early 1830s, some had modest cottage hospitals, operated by christian missionaries, found in more rural areas. Sanitoriums for treating infectious diseases: many accounts of horrible treatment, closed around the time medicare was introduced in 1968. In the british north america act (bna) of 1867 . health matters received little attention. Establishing & managing hospitals, asylums, charities, and charitable institutions. All other health care-related responsibilities (by default) Wwi: enlisting men, conscription of soldiers, high mortality rates, convalescence (gradual recovery) of survivors. Great depression: loss of income many could not afford medical services. Wwii: acceleration of medical technologies, social compact/contract (voluntary uniting of people to socially govern/organize themselves)
