BPK 140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Health Care In Canada, Emmett Matthew Hall, Canada Health Act
24 Jun 2016
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Values on which the canadian health care system is based. In march 1994, a health care conference was held in edmonton, alberta, at which the values of conference participants towards health care were systematically recorded and analyzed. Economic and other sociopolitical forces now seem to be having a major impact on plans and actual changes within the health care system. The conference participants identified 3 dominant values: the dignity of the human person as an individual and social being, respect for pluralism and differences (condition which two or more groups, authority coexists, accountability. These values were found to be strong, that that they sustain a focus on the. Common good the core of the canadian health care system and is enriched in the 1984 canada health act. A royal commission headed by justice emmett hall outlined the guiding principles for the canadian health care system in 1963.
