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Cornwall and Isles of Scilly constituted a district health authority from 1974 until 2002 when Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust was established. This was managed by the South West Peninsula Strategic Health Authority from 2002 until 2006 when that was merged into NHS South West. The PCT and the strategic health authority were ...
National Health Policy. The National Health Policy was endorsed by the Parliament of India in 1983 and updated in 2002, and then again updated in 2017. The recent four main updates in 2017 mention the need to focus on the growing burden of non-communicable diseases, the emergence of the robust healthcare industry, growing incidences of unsustainable expenditure due to healthcare costs, and ...
North York General Hospital ( NYGH) is a teaching hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Primarily serving the North York district, as well as southern York Region, it offers acute care, ambulatory and long-term services at multiple sites. It is one of Canada's leading community academic hospitals and is affiliated with the University of Toronto ...
Alberta Health Insurance Act. (1935) The Alberta Health Insurance Act was an act passed by the Alberta Legislature in February 1935. It was the first Canadian health insurance act to provide some public funding for medical services, and as such is considered to be an early step toward the provision of medicare in Canada .
The Canadian Dental Care Plan is a dental insurance program funded by the Government of Canada to provide dentistry services to uninsured Canadians that meet certain criteria. [1] It replaces a temporary dental benefit program established in 2022 for children under 12 who did not have dental insurance coverage, which will be terminated in June ...
On October 7, 2022, Pfizer's new bivalent vaccine, which targeted the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 as well as the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, was approved by Health Canada for individuals aged 12 years and up. According to Health Canada, 97% of COVID-19 cases in Canada were either of the BA.4 or BA.5 subvariant as of mid-September 2022.
The terms “health equality,” “health equity,” and “health justice” may seem similar at first glance. After all, they all seem to deal with giving everyone the care they need to stay ...
The Christian Labour Association of Canada ( CLAC) is a labour union that represents companies in the construction, healthcare, and food industries. It was established in 1952 to represent workers on the basis of "Christian social principles". The union claims that its approach to labour relations develops workers' sense of responsibility ...