Week 1 Flashcards
What is a Community?
A group, population, or cluster of people who live, work and play in an environment at a given time
What does a community share?
At least 1 common characteristic (location, ethnicity, or occupation) or common values/concerns
Society
The systems that incorporate the social, political, economic, and cultural infrastructure to address issues of concern
Population
A large group of people who have at least 1 characteristic in common and reside in a community
Group or Aggregate
Groups within a population (ex youth with diabetes)
Family
2 or more individuals who depend on each other for emotional, physical or financial support
Individual
1 human being
What does a Healthy Community look like? (13 things)
- Clean, safe environment
- Conservation of nature and resources
- affordable, adequate access to food, water, housing, recreation, transportation
- opportunities for education and skill development
- robust economy, low unemployment
- peace and low crime rates
- supportive family and work life
- strong sense of community belonging
- strong culture, heritage, spiritual beliefs
- equity, social justice, diversity
- Citizen participation in decision making
- committed leadership
- healthy public policy
What is Canada’s Health Act?
A federal legislation that puts in place conditions by which individual provinces and territories in Canada may receive funding for health services
What are the 5 main principals of CHA?
- Universality
- Comprehensiveness
- Public administration
- Accessibility
- Portability
What does the umbrella of care do under health Canada? Why was it established?
Provides a safeguard of care through surveillance, prevention, legislation and research
- formed in 2004 in response to the SARS (a resp illness) that dominated in Ontario
- SARS = Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
What falls under the Umbrella of Care?
PHAC - Public Health Agency of Canada
CIHR - Canadian Institute of Health Research
HPFB - Health Products and Food Branch
HECSB - Healthy Environment and Consumer Safety Branch
FNIHB - First Nations and Inuit Health Branch
what functions are part of a healthy community?
- Space and infrastructure
- Employment and income
- Security, Protection and Law
- Socialization and Networking
- Links to other Communities
What are dynamics of a healthy community?
- Communication
- Leadership
- Decision Making
What are social determinants?
- land
- environment
- gender
- control of resources
- income
- colonization
- language
- justice
- self determination
- racism
- housing
- family
- ECE
- culture
- school
What are the 3 ways to advance health equity?
- Improve conditions of daily life (where born, how one is growing up, living, working, and aging)
- Tackle inequitable distribution of money, power, and resources
- Measure the problem, evaluate action, expand knowledge base, and develop a work force that can deal with social determinants of health
Why was Canada’s Health Act introduced and when was it enacted? List the 5 principles of this Act.
Enacted in 1984, this act was enacted in order to create a more equitable national health care system for all canadians. Comprised of the 5 principles universality, accessibility, comprehensiveness of service, portability, and public administration
What does PHAC stand for, when was it established and why
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was established in 2004 following the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003.
Who leads this PHAC agency, and what is the process of communication across Canada from this leader
It is led by the chief public health officer. The communication provides collaborative opportunities between the federal government and the provinces and territories. The chief public officer communicates important public health issues in an annual report and provides national health advisories and recommendations for issues such as COVID19
Public Health Officer
Theresa Tam
Provincial Public Health Officer
Bonnie Henry
Differences in the funding for community health vs the rest of the healthcare system?
Community health funding goes into a broader range of different services (home care, vaccines, drug crisis resources, food support etc) whereas the rest of the healthcare system is using the money for similar reasons. CHNs are also drastically under-represented in the healthcare field with only 16% of Canadians nurses being CHNs, leaving the majority of the money to go to other aspects of the healthcare system.
Why doesn’t more money spent on healthcare = better health?
As inflation increases and more money can be spent on healthcare, we continue to try to fix the problem at a surface level with a top down approach rather than trying to find the underlying root of the problem and build change from the ground up. We can use all the money we want on healthcare, but unless we choose to help those with lower incomes succeed, the increasing population living lower income will continue to burden the healthcare system.
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