HLTH245 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Izaak Walton, Parental Leave, Financial Statement
24 Oct 2015
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Health ministries oversee a variety of sub divisions, branches, agencies, and programs that assume responsibility for various types of health care: also work with other service partners in the community (government funded and private, headed by elected member appointed by premier to position of minister of health (moh, also a deputy minister of health is appointed but not an elected member of parliament (may have multiple working under moh, provide leadership, direction, support to service delivery partners (regional health authorities, physicians) In 1990s, a way of improving health care delivery after conducting evaluations and reviews is to: decentralize decisions about health care issues through regionalization, assess need for specific types of care and delivering that care within a given jurisdiction, belief that involving community in decisions regarding healthcare would increase public participation in health care initiatives and enable ministry to address unique needs of each community in more cost effective and streamlined manner.
