The Importance Of Public Health

3) Which one of those below is not used to define a profession? A profession

Why do you think Chaucer included Justinus and Placebo? What does the latter’s debate contribute to the overall Tale? A number of factors come together to distance the reader from the characters in the tale, not least the complicated and ambiguous series of lenses through which they are viewed. They are all types or allegories to lesser or greater degrees.

In 1967, Tommy Douglas had a great impact in establishing Canada’s universal health care system which guarantees health care to its residents regardless of factors such as race or ethnicity, religion, income, and age (Tommy Douglas: The Father of Medicare, n.d., para.1). In the 1974 Lalonde Report it emphasizes that health services were only one of the many factors that affect health (A New Perspective On the Health of Canadians, 1974). Others factors which include income, food security, the level of education, shelter, status of health, social status, employment and working conditions, and living conditions also contribute to the status of ones’ health. These factors are known as the social determinants of health or one’s socio-economic status that provide an insight to the health of Canadians.

To start off this lecture is about, “Comparative Health Policy: Health on the Frontlines”, with our two quest speaker. The first quest speaker Dr. Jim Sugiyama, MD, discussed the front lines of primary care. Also, Tim Heffernan, retired high school teacher and member of Socialist Alternative, Politics of education. Dr. Jim discussed the various perspectives in health policy. His perspective was on the view on the health care system being a part of collectivism, mutual support, and health rights. He explains that the health care system is a part of non-medical structure of Canadian determinates of health. Finally, the lecture touched base on how our health systems fit into the greater structure of Canadian governance, and how it is globalized,

Health care expenditure accounted for an estimated 11% (214.9 billion) of Canada’s GDP in 2014 (CIHI, 2014). Canada boasts a universal, cost-effective and fair health care system to its citizens (Picard, 2010). However, despite great claims and large expenses incurred Canada’s health care system has been reported inefficient in it’s delivery to the population (Davis, Schoen, & Stremikis, 2010; Picard, 2010). As inconsistencies exist in health care delivery across the country, choosing priorities for the health of the Canadian people becomes of vital importance. In Ontario, progress toward a better health care system has been stated to be moving forward by putting the needs of the “patient’s first” (Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care [MOHLTC], 2015). This policy brief will give a background of health care issues in Canada related to Ontario. Three evidence-based priorities will be suggested for Ontario’s health policy agenda for the next three to five years. Furthermore, through a critical analysis of these issues a recommendation of the top priority issue for the agenda will be presented.

In order for health promotion to achieve its goal, programs that promote and support change have to be implemented before individual health issues arise. The individual based treatment and lifestyle programs that are predominant in Canada often do not contribute to social change and have limited societal effect. The paper by Alvaro entitled “Moving Canadian governmental policies beyond a focus on individual lifestyle: some insights from complexity and critical theories” argues that Canadian health policy is focused on promoting individual lifestyle change and neglects, or to a lesser degree overlooks, societal and economic issues, both of which are factors prevention programs consider. Alvaro argues that governments should refocus their efforts towards programs that remedy societal and economic issues that affect health. This argument is made by referencing reputable studies and sources, employing logical reasoning, and addressing issues that may evoke an emotional response in the public.

One of the key points in chapter 3 is the Ottawa Charter. The Ottawa Charter is a health promotion model that was established in the 1980’s. The Charter is based off the belief that to be able achieve health people need to have peace, shelter, education, food, a stable income, social justice and equity. This is why people found the Charter so appealing. It doesn’t just focus on one viewpoint for achieving health, it focuses on many.

The 21st Century has seen the healthcare system struggle with challenges such as an increase in chronic conditions, an increase in government spending on public health, and emerging threats such as global health security and antibiotic resistance. On the positive side, more people have gained access to care. To deal with these emerging issues as well as existing challenges, we need an effective public health workforce. The public health has the role of protecting the health of citizens. This could be through health promotion and lobbying for increased access to care. To address the problem of the rise in chronic ailments, public health has a role of creating awareness on chronic conditions, their symptoms and management. This is because these conditions are expensive to treat and drain the resources of patients and their families. Public health should therefore educate the public on the importance of screening and conduct these screening services for early diagnosis and prevention of chronic diseases. Another role of public health in the 21st Century is to provide and use evidence based practice in providing clinical services. This would help in addressing some of the emerging challenges such as antibiotic resistance.

In order to sustain the health care system, the Canadian government needs to strategically plan for the years ahead and invest more in preventative care rather than curative care. Canada should enforce non-medical health policies which are not only going to promise healthy living for

There exist some limitations. According to the authors, the study was on a provincial level, and not so much on the regional, community, and municipals levels. This is seen as an issue, because it contained only social determinants of health that require a multi-sector change at the provincial level. Next, the intervention ONLY looked at initiatives like healthy eating and physical, without identifying social programs in sectors like housing. Last, the intervention was not an entirely successful one, because “it did not document attempt to document whether the searched initiatives achieved desired outcomes related to the social determinants of health; such results require many years to manifest themselves” (p.12). United States can learn that having insufficient healthcare for some people can become a greater problem which is associated with costs, time, and the government bureaucracy still faces challenges when it comes to healthcare in the United

The essay talks about how empathy has been decreasing in the world. It gives facts about research made on empathy. Like how we can feel the pain of what others are going through. It also questions why people have more empathy on some misfortunes than on others. How other’s suffering touch our hearts at first, but when knowing the details and being asked for help, our reaction changes, making it less empathetic. However, we should increase empathy for the ones who haven’t suffered yet, that way we could decrease violence. The overall idea is that we should encourage empathy not only with out close relationships but with “humanity as a whole.”

Research has since shown that such models are ineffective and simply perpetuate negative social determinants of health (Raphael, 2009). In Canada, the economic basis for health care administration has been the concept of social welfare (Raphael, 2009). Succinctly defined, social welfare theory advocates for an increased role of the state in administering certain vital functions (Monique, 2007). To a degree, all societies feature some aspect of social welfare, with police,

The federal, provincial and territorial governments are in charge of Canada’s health care system including the achievement of the social determinants of health such as proper housing, education, sanitation for every eligible citizen (Health Canada, 2011). Majority of the responsibilities of delivering, maintaining and improving health and social services are directed by the provincial and territorial governments, while the federal government is responsible for funding health care services to provinces and territories that are covered by the Canada Health Act (CHA), setting and ensuring that every province and territories adheres to the Canada Health Act principles and providing health and social services to certain group of people such as

Socrates Refutation of Thrasymachus’ Definition of Justice In Plato’s Republic he attempts to uncover the fundamental question of what is justice. He does this through creating an open and engaging dialogue between his characters. His central character, Socrates, provides a voice for many of Plato’s personal views while several other interlocutors help present traditional Greek conceptions of justice and other criticisms. In book I of the Republic, Socrates refutes an interlocutor’s—Thrasymachus—concept of justice.

Since 1984, the Canadian health care system is based on five principles of the Canada Health Act: universality, accessibility, portability, comprehensiveness, and public administration (as cited in Madore & Tiedemann, 2005). This federal document introduces a frame how the public health care has to be delivered across the country. The delivery of the health care