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Health Care History in Canada

Teaching about health care in Canada is done by using case studies of pandemics and epidemics and by unpacking and exploring the ways in which different regions of Canada responded. For example, studying the Spanish Influenza pandemic in 1918-1920, the polio epidemic in the 1950s and the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1990s as well as modern day

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Canada in Focus: Free Health Care

WebThe age of universal health care in Canada had arrived. In 1984, the federal government passed the Canada Health Act which set out five guiding principles for provinces to …

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Canada in Focus: Free Health Care

WebThe road to universal health care in Canada was a winding, and sometimes, bumpy one and our ability to ensure that all Canadians receive similar levels of care is being squeezed by rising demand and by …

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Amazing Health History

WebIn the December 2013-January 2014 issue of Canada's History, columnist Chrisopher Moore wrote about how historians and health providers are working together …

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Radical Medicine

WebRadical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada. by Esyllt W. Jones. ARP Books, 379 pages, $28. Too often, argues Esyllt Jones, the history of Canada’s health care …

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Canadian Public Health Association

WebThe Canadian Public Health Association was founded in 1910 to help control and prevent communicable diseases. Its mission is to maintain and improve the health of all Canadians through policy advice, …

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The Fight For Medicare

WebBy no means was the outcome certain. Canadians today tend to take universal health care for granted. But back in 1962, medicare seemed like a pipe dream. …

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After the Pandemic

WebThe broad public-health measures, travel bans, and unprecedented lockdowns, implemented and re-implemented over extended periods, have caused much wider and deeper economic effects than …

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The Doctor and the Madmen

WebCentre Hospitalier Robert-Giffard. One fine day in late winter, 1826, a young doctor and his wife arrived in Quebec City in a horse-drawn sleigh, galloped around the city a few times, liked the look of it, …

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Canada's History Books

WebMedicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care. by Gary Geddes. Heritage House. 319 pages, $22.95. When Gary Geddes returned from his research for his book …

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From Bubonic Plague to Covid-19

WebSuccessive epidemics of cholera, which causes extreme diarrhea and can bring on death from dehydration within hours of exposure 7, swept through Europe and …

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The Polio Epidemic in Canada

WebThe number of cases reached a peak in Canada in 1953 with nearly nine thousand cases and five hundred deaths, the most serious national epidemic since the …

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Dr. Louis Slotin and "The Invisible Killer"

WebIn July 1993 retired health physicist Dr. K.Z. Morgan, one of Slotin’s Oak Ridge colleagues, recalled the exploit during a telephone interview with this writer: “It …

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A Pox on Our Nation

WebThe vaccina pulps were retrieved, and Canada has since created a new smallpox vaccine stockpile. The Canadian Public Health Agency has a contingency plan …

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History Idol: Tommy Douglas

WebTommy Douglas had long been a believer in universal health care, a belief borne out of his social gospel background and seeing farmers unable to afford health …

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Managing Madness

WebHealth care tactics shifted after the First World War, with the return of previously fit young men suffering from shell shock; but psychiatric advances and …

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Researching and Revealing Transcript

WebIn the year surrounding the Second World War Canada embraced a system of racially segregated hospital care - Indian hospitals - 22 of them by 1960. They were operated by …

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Canada's Great Women

WebShe sat in Prime Minister Lester Pearson’s Cabinet as the minister of national health and welfare and minster of amateur sport from 1963 to 1965. During this time the …

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After Victory: The Legacy of the Necessary War

WebThe Second World War led to fundamental changes to Canada, ushering in a new country forged by a generation’s service and sacrifice. Canadian soldiers celebrate …

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999 Queen Street West: The Toronto Asylum Scandal

WebIt was not until 1845 that construction began on the building (later notorious as “999 Queen Street”), designed by the noted city architect John George Howard. Five …

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