scholarly journals Charter Rights and Public Policy Choices: The Supreme Court and Public Finance

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1, 2 & 3) ◽  
pp. 2006
Author(s):  
Hugh Mellon
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Birth Parents ◽  
The Public ◽  
Treatment Regimes ◽  
Autism Treatment ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Translation Services

Over the past two decades there have been numerous highly charged court cases involving claims that government program offerings and public spending fail to satisfy guarantees entrenched in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.1 Calls for enhanced appeal mechanism in refugee determination,2 provincial health care coverage of hospital translation services for the deaf,3 equal leave provisions4 for both adoptive and birth parents, government coverage of autism treatment regimes,5 and access to health care provision rather than access to a waiting list6 all illustrate the intersection of the Charter with the allocation of the public purse.

scholarly journals Impact of Health Level on Agricultural Productivity in Cameroon

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Eric Joel Tchinda Kamdem
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Agricultural Yields ◽  
Care Costs

The objective of this study is to assess the effect of health on agricultural productivity in Cameroon. To achieve this objective, we use the techniques of Propensity Score Matching on data from the fourth Cameroonian household survey (ECAM 4). The results of the analysis show that healthy farmers produce on average than farmers in fragile health. Indeed, healthy farmers produce an average of FCFA 583,601 per hectare. This effect is statistically significant at the 5% threshold. Due to the fact that the level of health improves agricultural yields, we recommend to the public authorities, to facilitate farmers' access to health care through a reduction in health care costs, but also through a multiplication of health centers in rural areas.

Americans’ View of the Impact of COVID-19: Perspectives on Racial Impacts and Equity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Carman ◽  
Anita Chandra ◽  
Carolyn Miller ◽  
Christopher Nelson ◽  
Jhacova Williams
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
Equity And Access ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The Face ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Context: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disparate effect on African Americans and Latino groups. But it is unknown how aware the public is of these differences, and how the pandemic has changed perceptions of equity and access to health care. Methods: We use panel data from nationally representative surveys fielded to the same respondents in 2018 and 2020 to assess views and changes in views over time. Findings: We found that awareness of inequity is highest among Non-Hispanic Black respondents and higher income and higher educated groups, and that there have been only small changes in perceptions of inequity over time. However, there have been significant changes in views of the government’s obligation ensure access to health care. Conclusions: Even in the face of a deadly pandemic, one that has killed disproportionately more African Americans and Latinos, many in the U.S. continue not to recognize that there are inequities in access to health care and the impact of COVID-19 on certain groups. But policies to address inequity may be shifting. We will continue to follow these respondents to see whether changes in attitudes endure over time or dissipate.

scholarly journals Barriers in health care to breast cancer: perception of women

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Luiza Conceição Gonçalves ◽  
Gabriela Lima Travassos ◽  
Ana Maria de Almeida ◽  
Alzira Maria D’Ávila Nery Guimarães ◽  
Cristiane Franca Lisboa Gois
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Trajectory Of Care

Identifying the barriers in the access to health care to breast cancer perceived by women undergoing chemotherapy.Method: An exploratory descriptive study. The sample consisted of 58 women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy and registered in the public oncology ambulatory of Aracaju-Sergipe. Data collection was carried out between October 2011 and March 2012 by semistructured interviews, and data were processed using the SPSS, version 17.Results: Among the interviewed women, 37 (63.8%) reported at least a barrier in the trajectory of care for breast cancer. The organizational and health services barriers were the most reported in the periods of investigation and treatment of breast cancer.Conclusion: In face of these findings, the barriers should be considered in public health policies and programs for the control of breast cancer in Sergipe.



The Korean Economic Crisis and Coping Strategies in the Health Sector: Pro-Welfarism or Neoliberalism?

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang-Yup Kim
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Private Health Sector ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
And Coping

In South Korea, there have been debates on the welfare policies of the Kim Dae-jung government after the economic crisis beginning in late 1997, but it is unquestionable that health and health care policies have followed the trend of neoliberal economic and social polices. Public health measures and overall performance of the public sector have weakened, and the private health sector has further strengthened its dominance. These changes have adversely affected the population's health status and access to health care. However, the anti-neoliberal coalition is preventing the government's drive from achieving a full success.

scholarly journals Health Care and Human Rights after Auton and Chaoulli

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mel Cousins
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Judicial Interpretation ◽  
Language Interpretation ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The Supreme Court

Abstract The judicial interpretation of the entitlement to health care under the Charter and human rights legislation has tended to swing between interventionist and non-interventionist poles. In Eldridge, the Supreme Court of Canada held that a failure to provide sign language interpretation where this was necessary to ensure equal access to health care was in breach of the equality provisions of the Charter. However, in a subsequent case, Auton, the Court narrowly circumscribed the limits of this approach, holding that the Canadian system of public health care was, by its very terms, a partial health plan. It followed that exclusion of particular non-core services could not, in itself, be seen as less favourable treatment. The Chaoulli decision marked a return to a more interventionist approach with the Court holding (by a narrow majority) that the prohibition on private health insurance provided for in Quebec law was inconsistent with section 1 of the Quebec Charter. This judgment has been cited in over eighty decisions of courts and tribunals. However, just how important has Chaoulli been in terms of the overall approach of the Canadian courts? The author suggests that Chaoulli—despite its significance in the legislative arena—has had a somewhat limited impact to date on the case law concerning health care, and that Auton has clearly had a greater impact to date. The author examines several examples from subsequent case law that point to the weakness of the approaches taken in both Auton and Chaoulli. The narrow approach adopted in Auton can lead to equality claims being dismissed without any proper discrimination analysis and shows the manner in which a broad use of the “benefit provided by law” requirement may weaken equality jurisprudence. Conversely, the case law highlights the fact that the courts will have to reject much more difficult claims than those upheld in Chaoulli unless they wish to develop positive obligations under section 7 of the Charter.

A Financing Strategy for Universal Access to Health Care

2018 ◽  
pp. 338-359
Author(s):  
Ravi Duggal
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Health Financing ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
The Public ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Framework Document ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Financing Strategy

Given that health is a state subject, an independent working group of experts was set up in Maharashtra to evolve a framework for Universal Access to Health Care (UAHC) and it has developed a framework document for restructuring the public healthcare system and its financing that will help facilitate the implementation of a UAHC model. This chapter reviews how, over the years, the health financing strategy failed to develop a robust public health financed system through underinvestment in health and further discusses the financing strategy of the proposed Maharashtra UAHC model to establish universal access to healthcare.

Book Reviews: Leichter

1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-293
Author(s):  
Richard C. Weston
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Access To Health

Government policy can further the health of the public in four ways, notes Howard Leichter: “It can support biomedical research; improve, guarantee, or subsidize access to health care; regulate environmental and product hazards; and encourage people, through education or regulation, to adopt more healthy life-styles” (p. 6).

scholarly journals From Informal Exchanges to Dual Practices. The Shadows of the Romanian Health Care Reform

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-122
Author(s):  
Cristine Palaga
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Health Care Staff ◽  
Public System ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
System Reconfiguration ◽  
Access To Health

Abstract The current frailties of the Romanian health care system are often explained by resorting to the previous regime’s institutional framework, rarely accepting that they are also the product of post-1990 reforms and the neoliberal means of system reconfiguration. This paper provides an ethnographic account of the ways in which two “products” of these reforms actively contribute to the augmentation of private medical services and to the diminishing access to quality care in the public system: the bureaucratization of primary medicine and the “dual medical practice”. More specifically, I use the concept of “informal exchanges” in order to explore the variety of transactions that occur between patients and the health care staff and to document the means through which its main social actors understand, reproduce, legitimize or blame the very existence of these practices. Then, I analyze how referrals to private medical units increasingly replace informal payments, simultaneously laying even harder obstacles in the access to health care for those in need.

Using Technology to Improve Access to Health Care for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline A. Mashima
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Improve Access

Important initiatives in health care include (a) improving access to services for disadvantaged populations, (b) providing equal access for individuals with limited or non-English proficiency, and (c) ensuring cultural competence of health-care providers to facilitate effective services for individuals from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health, 2001). This article provides a brief overview of the use of technology by speech-language pathologists and audiologists to extend their services to underserved populations who live in remote geographic areas, or when cultural and linguistic differences impact service delivery.

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