Current Health Care System - Canadian Context
Universal health care, however dental, optical, mental health and drugs as personal cost (growing privatization). Founded on Canada Health Act Princples (accessibility, public administration, universality, portabiliy, comprehensivness). Health transfer funds from federal to provincial govenments (renegotiated yearly could cause delays and money spent on renegotiation that could be used for funding the health care system). Each province comes up with their own plan, this is expensive. Decrease service due to increased wait times, different from province to province, biased towards curative medicine (biomedical individualism), Social gradiant of health exist where people with higher incomes have better health outcomes. Have an aging population with a decreasing health literacy. Currently there are many disparities, system is difficult to navigate, there are limited resources, fragmented system and long wait times. Resources that are availble are not properly allocated (rurual vs urban) or utilized effectively. Limited continuity of care. Inequities based on gender, ethnicity, geographical residency and cultural norms and income