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HealthCare Challenges - Canadian Population …
HealthCare Challenges - Canadian Population
Demographic Shift
Chronic Conditions
Increased significant burden of disease for seniors or older population
Influenced by health issues from earlier in the life course
Mental Health Problems
Obeisity
Diet, exercise, smoking behaviours
Increased comorbidities - having more than one chronic condition
Increases demands on health care system
Increased medication use and misuse
Decreased System Capacity and Staffing Shortages
Rising number of unattached patients to primary care providers
increased visits to emergency rooms
longer wait times to access primary health care and specialist physicians
lack of beds
longer hospital stays due to staffing shortages
longer wait lists for long term care
caregiver burnout
Health Budgets Keep Growing
Increased demand for health spending exceeding overall province budgets
Inflation due to rising drug costs
Increased hospital maintenance costs
Better quality of care
Healt
By: Dhanesha Bhatti