Healthcare in Canada

evaluate policies in sustainable health interventions, I hope to make positive contributions in reforming our current healthcare system through policy changes. My future career aim is to become a Public Health Officer with the Public Health Agency of Canada to improve healthcare delivery. Western University appealed to me due to its prestige and unique one year MPH program within Canada. Furthermore, it is the only MPH program certified by the CEPH (Council on Education for Public Health) in…

(Block, 2014). Deliver Healthcare with a Focus Healthcare organizations should deliver healthcare with a focus on population health because it allows for better health outcomes, care management, and emphasizes on the specific population. A population health approach indicates that elements beyond the health care system considerably influence health, as well as, all the determinants of health which reveal a correlation with health status (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2013). Key aspects of…

Strengths Health Myself Innovations provides convenient, secure with no privacy risks communication between patients and physicians. The Health Myself Portal allows to reduce resource strain at healthcare clinic, such as the receptionist (gatekeeper) now has time for other tasks of the clinic rather taking numerous calls and scheduling appointments. Moreover, physicians and patients get opportunity to communicate their needs while not been restricted with time of appointment. Furthermore, TGHC…

In today’s technological era, there is a high demand and need of healthcare policies that can provide major improvements in the quality of care. Health care is a continuous process, in which medical information is progressively accumulated; therefore there is a need of a systematic system that can track all the various health policies as well keep up with the innovative technology used in health system. Health care sectors may further even vary within a country, consisting of a small scaled…

as yoga or dance. The care workers need to take an effort to organize a physical activity program for the group. By the creation of the interventions that is made for the patient it will promote physical activity, even within the community. The healthcare system will need to make accessibility to the interventions that needs to be implemented. However, in the article, “Barriers and Facilitators for Type-2 Diabetes Management in South Asians: A Systematic Review”, authors T. Sohal, P. Sohal,…

Although healthcare organizations often indicate that it is a simple request to have healthcare professionals such as family physicians, midwives, obstetricians and nurses, work together, it cannot be assumed that these professionals have been prepared with the competencies (knowledge, skills and judgement) to collaborate and the necessary attributes to effectively work together (Pfaff, Baxter, Jack & Ploeg, 2014). The identification of healthcare providers who will work effectively in an…

from some cosmetic services. Canada’s healthcare system is referred to as the “public” system. The structural actor of government had tried to gain support from the doctor colleges in Canada to create a public healthcare system that would try to exclude the private system. With the government being successful in gaining the support of the doctor’s colleges, they were able to monopolize the medical knowledge and then incorporate it into the Canadian healthcare system allowing them to create a…

The buzz of indiscernible conversations and clamour of the emergency department (ED) faded into the distance as I felt the burning gaze of everyone in the room. The rhythmic beeping of the oxygen saturation monitor intensified as if taunting me, challenging me. I became cognizant of how tremulous and sweaty my hands were as I pleaded for the endotracheal tube’s cooperation. After what felt like an eternity, I heard the words I had been desperately waiting for, “breath sounds bilaterally.” While…

The American healthcare system is much more expensive yet its results cannot compare to the cheap and effective Japanese healthcare system. Both systems are struggling, however, to maintain themselves. The American healthcare system is heavily flawed as the lower class cannot afford health care and more than 45 million Americans are uninsured. (Rosenthal, Medical procedures and drugs cost the most in the United States as compared to any other country, with drugs such as Lipitor costing $122…

Norman Bethune Significance should not be determined by what someone has done, but rather the impact that they have made and how they changed the world around them. Norman Bethune largely impacted the way medical care is today, and saved many lives with his compassion towards the wounded and struggling. Norman Bethune was born in Gravenhurst, Ontario on March 3 1890. Growing up in the safety of Canadian borders, Bethune had little exposure to any war going on in the world around him. He grew up…