Midterm Flashcards
How does capacity effect consent
If the patient has so,‘em kind of mental disability
Implied consent
Patient is dead and u have to help
Explicit consent
Clear choice by patient
What is GOC
Government of Canada
What is WHO
World Health Organization
Health
Individual/group must be able to identify and to realize aspiration, satisfy needs and changes/cope with enviroment
Illness
Sickness
Disease
Condition, body Physical/mental different than normal
Disability
Different from normal functioning
How can we measure health?
Diet, age, accessibility, cancer diagnoses, medications
Social determinants of health
1) income/social status (strongest)
2) social support networks
3)education and literacy
4) employment and working conditions
5) social environment
-culture, ethnicity, community
6) physical environment
7) personal health practices
8) healthy childhood development
9) biology/genetics endowment
10) health services
11) gender
12). Culture ethnicity
Social determinets of mental health
-freedom from discrimination violence
-social inclusion
-access to economic resources
Tommy Douglas
Father of Canadian healthcare
PHI
Personal health information
PHIPA
Personal health info protection act
Circle of care
Whoever’s involved in the one patients csre
History of health in Canada
First form of healthcare was the indigenous
Natives were effected by Europeans bc they came over and exposed lots of diseases
Natives originally #1 treatment for healthcare-willow bark
First doctors
They were from France/england
18 and 19 century
Only wealthy could afford healthcare
Volunteer organization
Red Cross, St. John’s, ambulance, children’s aid, Victorian order of nurses
Federal government
Native affairs
Management or quarantine
Establishment of marine hospitals
Gives money to provinces
Provincial government
Establishes and manages hospitals and charitable institutions
Responsible for all healthcare (Public health )
First hospital
In Quebec
Public health insurance
Started after the Great Depression bc ppl couldn’t afford healthcare so they used tax money to pay