Health Systems and Health Policy in Canada

How Canadian medicare is organized, financed and governed, and how health policy is made.

PUBH-340 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · Public Health

Course content

  1. 1What a health system isComing
  2. 2The history of medicare in CanadaComing
  3. 3The Canada Health ActComing
  4. 4Federal, provincial and territorial rolesComing
  5. 5Financing health careComing
  6. 6Paying hospitals and physiciansComing
  7. 7Pharmaceutical coverageComing
  8. 8Primary care and community healthComing
  9. 9Comparing health systems around the worldComing
  10. 10How health policy is madeComing
  11. 11Health technology assessmentComing
  12. 12Case study: a health policy debateComing

Requirements

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.

Description

How Canadian medicare is organized, financed and governed, and how health policy is made.

Part of the Health Sciences stream, typically taken in year 3.