Publicized Hospital Services in Canada Kathleen Besario 300705955 3/19/2015 Majority of the population in Canada are more concerned about general health and nothing else. Does Canada have the best health care system compared to any other countries? Or are there inconvenient truths? Health care is the top priority for Canadians and after decades of debate and arguments, significant raise in public funding and discontinuous attempt by jurisdictions are all over the country. A survey from The Conference Board of Canada, showed that 90 per cent of Canadians deem that health care should be the main concern of the government instead of other issues within the country.
The New Health Care System in America The United States is considered one of the most powerful nations in the World. It has some of the best technology, research, and business systems among the advanced nations around the globe. However, the truth is that our country is well behind other advanced nations in providing health care in an efficient, timely, and cost effective manner (New York Times, 2007). It is extremely disappointing to see that such a great nation has about 47 million people that are uninsured and do not have access to health care (Institute of Medicine, 2010). Many Americans have fooled themselves into thinking that we in fact have the best health care system in the world.
In Canada, pharmaceuticals account for the second source of health care costs. Pharmaceuticals are a high growth sector in Canada with domestic production valued at almost $12 billion in 2009 and growing 8.5 percent annually since 2000 (Canada's Pharmaceutical Sector, 2011). Generic pharmaceuticals are determined by Health Canada to be bio-equivalent to patented pharmaceuticals and their primary role is to serve as competition to brand-name drugs. The generic drug industry tends to be very complex and misunderstood. Generic drugs are tested in Canada and proven to have the same clinical effects of those branded products that are sold under patents.
4). Canada’s healthcare system has evolved throughout the years. The shift between a public to a more prominent private based system has become a pressing subject in the healthcare industry today. The economy would suffer from great consequences if out healthcare system shifted from a public/private mid to a fully private healthcare sector. Individuals in favour of privatization often believe the United States provides more efficient healthcare and tend to be part of the upper class of the financial ladder (Angell, 2008, para.
Moreover, lung cancer is one of the cancer types which have the highest rate in Canada. These data have proved that the relationship between smoking rate and cancer rate in Canada is the only relationship coincided. This analysis verifies that cancer rate increases in Canada. However, we find ourselves less confident of the theory that the cancer rate increases
THE EFFECT OF NURSING SHORTAGE ON HEALTH CARE REFORM By the year 2014, America will be undergoing through one of its historical moments, the provision of health coverage to the nation’s 46 million uninsured people. The aim of the health care reform is to improve access to quality care for all Americans. This implies more Americans will require Healthcare services.” Nurses are the largest group of U.S professionals and constitute a major part of the infrastructure necessary to any health care reform agenda “(1). Unfortunately there is shortage of Nurses to meet the demands of the health care reform. HRSA projects that, absent aggressive intervention, in the year 2020 the shortage will grow to more than 1 million RNs-representing a shortage of 36% (2).
“Boosting immigration could be a very effective way of helping to ease the shortage, but there are other impediments.” Immigrants often have difficulty working in their fields after they arrive. * On average, it takes 10 years for immigrants to get hired in jobs for which they have skills and, even then, they are not necessarily working at the skill level to which they have been trained. "The People of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences." (Paul Martin). Immigration started in the mid-1700s and is still continuing today.
In the understanding of success, people focus on personality traits, intelligence, innate ability, and hard work. After I read the book “outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell, I realized that to become a successful person is not that simple; in fact, the result of succeed involves with many outliers. The book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell inspired me of how people became succeed with any of the outliers. According to the first two chapters of the book, the “Matthew Effect” and “The 10,000 Hour Rule”, Gladwell discusses how hockey players become professional in Canada based on their birth month. Those hockey players who are born in the earlier part of the year will have a huge advantage in physical maturity comparing to others.
The ridiculous portion of our budget that is spent on defense could be much better spent on social welfare, health, and education. The United States usually leads the world in military funding. In 2012, the United States spent approximately $806 billion on our military budget, which covers about 27% of the country’s federal funds budget. We don’t need such a massive, sprawling military policing the entire world to be safe. Pouring even 5% of the money we spend on defense into education and health care would give this country some lasting benefits that would help us achieve a brighter future.
Canada, The United States of America, Australia, and all of Europe it can be argued are all in stage 4 of the DTM. Stage 4 typically results after a large economic development, which results in increased amounts of education , which leads to a decrease in population. During this stage of development, the country typically shows little to no population growth because the birth rate and death rate are nearly equal. This will result in a low fertility rate, of slightly over 2 , which is just enough to replace both the parents and the infant deaths. There is also a “greying population” meaning that the typical age of a citizen of that country is considerably older.