Healthcare Systems in Canada

The core principles guiding the Canadian healthcare system, ensuring universal access, public administration, comprehensiveness, portability, and accessibility.

The first point of contact for healthcare needs, focusing on prevention, health promotion, and community-based services.

A holistic approach combining conventional medicine with complementary therapies, like acupuncture, massage, or meditation.

Challenges faced by the Canadian healthcare system, such as funding constraints, workforce shortages, and inequitable access.

Ongoing changes and innovations within the Canadian healthcare system, aimed at improving efficiency, accessibility, and quality of care.

Canada's public health insurance program, providing hospital and medical coverage, funded by taxes.

The law outlining national principles for Canada's healthcare system, ensuring universality, comprehensiveness, accessibility, portability, and public administration.

Healthcare services are managed and delivered by public organizations, not private businesses.

Coverage includes all medically necessary services, regardless of specific health conditions.

Everyone in Canada has access to healthcare, regardless of income, background, or location.

Canadians moving between provinces retain healthcare coverage.

Everyone has reasonable access to healthcare, regardless of their ability to pay.

Sets national healthcare principles, finances provinces, and provides health services for specific groups like Indigenous people and veterans.

A healthcare approach combining conventional medicine with complementary and alternative practices, focusing on the whole person and underlying causes of illness.

Practices used alongside conventional medical treatment, like acupuncture for pain relief during chemotherapy.

Practices used instead of conventional medical treatment, like choosing herbal remedies over prescription drugs.

Viewing health as a whole, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

The traditional, Western-style medicine based on scientific evidence, using drugs, surgery, and other interventions.

Wide-scale changes in societal beliefs and values, often influenced by factors like technology, globalization, and increased access to information.

Fundamental shifts in thinking and understanding, changing the way we approach a particular field or topic.

A patient-focused approach emphasizing the relationship between healthcare provider and patient, fostering trust and communication.

Organizations that set standards, competencies, codes of ethics, and handle disciplinary actions for their members. They often have regulations from governments or other bodies.

A Canadian report that reviewed the country's health care system and made recommendations for improvements, focusing on issues such as access, quality, and efficiency.

Another significant Canadian report that examined the state of the health care system and proposed solutions for its sustainability and future.

The process of organizing health services around geographic regions, often involving the creation of regional health authorities to manage resources and coordinate care locally.

The process of reducing the number of regional health authorities, often leading to a more centralized control of health services.

New and developing medical technologies that are constantly transforming the healthcare landscape, offering new treatments and diagnostic tools.

A Canadian government plan aimed at improving the country's health care system over a decade, addressing challenges and setting priorities.

A foundational piece of Canadian legislation that defines the principles of the country's universal health care system. It guarantees access to medically necessary care, regardless of a person's financial situation.

Financial payments from the federal government to provinces and territories to support their delivery of health care services.

The foundation of Canada's healthcare system. It provides ongoing care, emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention, and supports essential healthcare services.

A subset of Primary Health Care. It focuses specifically on personal health services, including diagnosis, treatment, and management of health conditions.

The four key components of Primary Health Care: Teams, Access, Information, and Healthy Living.

Challenges faced by IPC teams, categorized into individual-level, practice-level, and system-level barriers.

A nursing practice that recognizes the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit in health and illness, advocating for a person-centered approach to care.

Therapeutic methods that address the interconnectedness of mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of health, such as meditation, yoga, or aromatherapy.

Integrative healthcare strategies that nurses can readily implement in their practice, promoting holistic wellness for patients.

Techniques that help reduce stress and promote relaxation, using methods like deep breathing exercises, meditation, or progressive muscle relaxation.

Mindfulness practices that involve focusing attention on the present moment through techniques like deep breathing or guided imagery.

Mental exercises that involve creating vivid mental images to promote relaxation, reduce anxiety, or improve health outcomes.

The body's physiological reaction to stressful situations, involving hormonal and physical changes that can impact health.

Lowering heart rate and blood pressure, reducing muscle tension, and improving overall well-being.

Controlling or relieving pain and stress, achieving calmness and serenity, and visualizing cancer cells being destroyed.

A technique that uses technology to monitor physiological responses, like heart rate or muscle tension, to help gain control over them.

Nurses play a crucial role in collaborating with CAM practitioners, providing patient education, assessing patient viewpoints, and ensuring safe and effective use of therapies.

Combining conventional medicine with complementary therapies like acupuncture, massage, and meditation to promote holistic wellness.