Accessing Health Care and Canada Health Act

Principles of the Canada Health Act and Current Healthcare Issues in Canada

Accessing health care. What advice, if any, would you provide a refugee who overhears you say that you are a health careprofessional and proceeds to ask you how can she go about accessing health care for herself and her family 2. Principles of Canada Health Act. Identify a current health care issue Friends of Medicare in Canada have raised. Using yourknowledge of the Canada Health Act, discuss if you would support or not support Friends of Medicare on the issue andexplain how their concerns relate to one or more principles of the Canada Health Act 3. Canada Health Act violations and what to do. Select two principles of the Canada Health Act, and provide an example of how it has been violated, and what action if any would you as a health care professional take on the issue 4. Jurisdictions and responsibilities. Identify and discuss the specific responsibilities of the federal andprovincial/territorial governments and their respective Ministers of Health for applying the terms and theconditions of the Canada Health Act. 5. Current issue. Identify a current public health issue in Canada and describe how provincial, federal, and an internationalorganizations could work together to address the issue.