Introduction

In Part One of this Pressbook, you will be learning about how the Canadian health care system has developed over time, the roles of the federal and provincial governments related to the provision of health care, what health care services are (and are not) provided to Canadians, how the system is paid for, and the laws related to health care in Canada.

In the next 10 chapters, you will be learning about and discussing:

• models of health and individual health practices,
• Canada’s population health approach,
• Canada’s road to socialized medicine,
• the roles of federal and provincial health care organizations,
• Ontario’s insured, extended, and supplemental health care services,
• regulated health care professionals,
• spending, funding and payment mechanisms, and
• federal and provincial health care laws

Each chapter in Part One of this Pressbook corresponds with a week of content in the ADMN1030 course.

By the end of Part One, you will have a solid understanding of how Canada’s health care delivery systems came to be, the roles of each level of government as it relates to health care, the health care providers working within the system, how the system is funded, and the laws related to health care in Canada.