HLST 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canada Health Act, Public Administration
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Lecture 1: introduction and essentials of health care management. Canada was founded on federalism a political system through which two or more governments have shared authority over the same geographical area. Power is divided between levels of government. The important thing to note is that all along provinces had the primary role for health care (originally narrowly de ned in the constitution act to hospitals and similar institutions). However, the federal government"s focus and positions have shifted, affected by other key drivers, the economic picture, wars, social or political winds. We will see this shift manifesting itself more explicitly in the last 20 or so years. The federal government in uences health care through the canada health act. Provincial government: constitutionally for public, establishment, maintenance, health matters, welfare for speci c classes of people (aboriginal/armed forced/federal inmates) and management of hospitals, asylums, charities and eleemosynary. In an attempt to regain visibility and in uence, the federal government passed the.
