Since time immemorial, governments have laid emphasis on public health. This is after recognizing the role public health plays to individuals and communities. Solid public health programs result to better health. Moreover, they form the base for the treatment system in Canada. If populations are healthy, they require less often treatment. Furthermore, they respond more effectively in situations where treatment is necessary.
Canadian government’s health care system has concerns in the community, the well- being of its people, and overall health. Moreover, there is a concern for the manner in which the social environment influences mortality and disease.
The government recognizes the fact that the socioeconomic status of its people plays an exceptionally significant role in influencing disease. The novel Canadian’s health perspective values biology, health care organizations, environment, and lifestyle. For sustainable health care strategies, the Canadian government invests in resources such as capital, raw materials, human skills, energy, and adequate time (Ganguly, 1999).
However, there is a negative result as far as well- being and economic progress are concerned. This is because of the aging population, higher taxes, less public health budget, and less economic development resources. There is, therefore, a need for the Canadian government to lay down strategies which focuses on eliminating these challenges.
This will safeguard a productive, reliable, and effective health care system. The Canadian government is aware that spending too much on the health system in a country, to the extent that alternative activities which promote health are ignored, result to inadequate health among the people.
So as to cater for its people’s health adequately, the Canadian government invests in the following principles; public administration, portability, comprehensives, accessibility, and universality. These principles were introduced in the 1984 Health Act. While struggling to fulfil these principles, the government has experienced several challenges (Forget & Lebel, 2001).
These include less accessibility among the immigrants, socioeconomic variations in access to health care, and failure of the people to get care at the point of need. As far as accessibility challenges are concerned, they are categorised in to economic, sociocultural, and geographic. Among the geographic challenges, there are less doctors in the neighbourhood than required and low mobility.
In the sociocultural category, there are gender issues, language barrier, and varying health conceptions. On the economic category, there are concerns on extended health benefits, failure to give novel arrivals insurance, and prescriptions. In the present health care system in Canada, emphasis is no longer on protection, prevention, and promotion.
The lecture materials were extremely vital in assisting me answer the question of the day. Specifically, the lecture materials covered issues such as the challenges experienced in the Canadian Health care systems, the principles in various Health Care Acts, and how the challenges can be solved (Lindsay, 2003).
The lecture materials were extremely useful since they were easily comprehensible and thoroughly researched. Moreover, they contained all the required information.
The insurance program in Canada aims at ensuring that illness does not eventually result to bankruptcy. However, it is worth noting with keen interest that as treatment expenditures continue to rise, vital investments in the Public Health sector have reduced significantly.
Moreover, ignoring the services on which the health care system in Canada is founded threatens the system. There is, therefore, the need for genomics and technologies so as to emphasize the significance of the system for the well- being of the people.
References
Forget, G., & Lebel, J. (2001). An ecosystem approach to human health. International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 7(2), S1-S38.
Ganguly, S. (1999). Investor-State Dispute Mechanism (ISDM) and a Sovereign’s Power to Protect Public Health, The. Colum. J. Transnat’l L., 38, 113.
Lindsay, J. R. (2003). The determinants of disaster vulnerability: Achieving sustainable mitigation through population health. Natural Hazards, 28(2), 291-304.