What is the importance of the British North America Act of 1867?
The constitution was created
Canada was seen as self governed
Federal government claimed responsibility to indigenous people
Public-Health is provincial and Public Policy is federal
How did the Victoria Order Nurse come together? in 1897
Lady Aberdeen had the idea after she saw the poor environments women were giving birth in with no assistance. This program was created to improve legislation and educational standards.
Tell me about the ICN, what it stands for, why it was created?
International Council of Nurses
Sought to improve women’s societal positions. First joiners were the allies and Germany but if you didn’t have national nursing organization you couldn’t join Michelle Acorn was appointed chief nurse
The Weir Report what was it and what did it do??
The weir report called for attention for insuffiecnt classrooms and lack of variety in the clinical experience. and in the 60’s there was a call for an education reform after another report Call to life came out explaining the 2 tierd education program
Medicare, tell me about it
Key to Canada’s social safety net is the provision of hospital and medical insurance, known as Medicare, which is funded by general taxation. Although it is called a “national” program, Medicare is, in fact, an interlocking set of 10 provincial and 3 territorial insurance schemes providing a core palette of medically essential hospital and physician services to individuals registered in their respective province or territory (Marchildon etal., 2020). Medicare is a source of national pride and solidarity as a commitment to the well-being of Canadians. It is also a source of national debate regarding costs, effectiveness, and sustainability.
What was the Municipality Act of 1916??
As urbanization continued, rural communities experienced difficulty attracting and paying physicians. The federal Municipality Act, 1916 allowed communities to levy taxes to pay for physicians. But with the onset of the Great Depression, many people could no longer pay their medical bills and hospital stays caused financial ruin. With increasing needs, many provinces did not have the tax base to fund and ensure parallel services across the country. ( tax revenue to pay physicians)
What did Tommy Douglas do?
He was the premier of Saskatchewan. Gave rise to universal healthcare in 1916 there was a tax to pay doctors and in 47’ tommy sai nuh uh and started mediciare. It started as half-funding and MD’s went on strike cause they wanted to be paid
Medical Care Act, what did it do
established a framework for universal health insurance to cover physician services outside of hospitals. It encouraged provinces and territories to provide comprehensive, portable, and universally accessible physician services by having the federal government cost-share the programs. It was a huge stepping stone to universal health care in CND
What is the importance of the Canada Health Act?
Promote, protect and restore the mental wellbeing of residents in CND and faciliatate reasonable access to health services or other barriers . It legally protects public healthcare for all of us.
What are the 5 Principels of the Canada Health Act
and what is trying to be added?
Public Adminstration: Operate on a non profit basis through public authority
Comprehensivness: Cover medically necessary services
Universitality: Free of discrimination
Portability: Coverage across CND for insured Residence
Accessibility: Reasonable access regardless of ability to pay
Sustainability is trying to be added
Portability meaning
Enables insured residents’ access to health care services in another province or territory without cost or penalty.
Provide continuous coverage for 3 months upon relocation within Canada
Health Care Challenges
Aging population
Chronic diseases
Wait times
Climate change
Sustaniability
Why are we concerned with Privatization?
Less access
Harder to regulate Healthcare professionals
People with more funds will do better
Two tier system created which is smth we want to avoid
Health inequites
PROS
Shorter wait times, acknowledgement of the system
What are the 3 Areas of Care?
Primary
Secondary
Teritarty
What is Primary Care about
Health Promotion and disease prevention model for improving health supporrs essential health services
5 Areas of Care…
Prevention
Promotion
Diagnosis of Treatment
Rehab
Support
Of Canadas population how many are indeginous
4.9
What are the main Indigenous views?
Connection to the land: land is sacred and more then just a resources
Collective Culture: Family and Community
Matriarchal: Inheritance from mothers and fathers
Everything is connected
Holistic view of health
What was the act called where the goverment promised to provide medicine to indigenous people and give access to medical care
Medicine Chest Clause Treaty 6\
…and the Indian Health Policy was meant to be in collab with community development but implementation has been reaally bad
Tell me about self-governance and self determination
working in partnership towards this goal and advance indeginous self determination which is a fundemtnal indeginous right and law
Structual racism in Canada
Residential schools
Delays in servie for on reserve First Nations children
Assult of indeinous women
Child Welfare and 60’s scoop
Indeginous child poverty
all relates to cultural genocide
TRC
94 calls to action
FInancial settlements for those who had suffered abuse or negelct
who was Joyce Echanquan?
and
Brain Sinclair
had a known cardiac issue and was restrained to her bed. Stall called her names and she recorded her whole experience until her death
Brain was really unwell waited 30 hours for help in ER and died in the waiting room
what is smudging?
he smoke is believed to cleanse negative energy and help center the mind, body, and spirit. This ancient spiritual tradition is used to foster a connection to the spiritual world and can also be a way to ground oneself and prepare for an event
