HLTC43H3 Chapter 9: chapter 9
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Chapter 9: health policy in broader perspective: welfare states and public policy. The form that health care policy and health-related public policy take in canada is part of what has been termed the advance welfare state. The source of welfare state in canada as we know it today is to be found in the insecurtieis and experiences of canadians during the depression and the wwii. In policy studes, the welfare state refers to a set of social reforms such as public pensions and other services implemented by governments to provide citizens with various supports and benefits. In europe two alternatives to the liberal welfare state emerged during the late 19th and 20th centuries: the conservative and social democratic. The modern welfare state as it evolved in canada and other developed nation is sometimes called the keynesian welfare state named after the economist john maynard.
