HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEM IN QUÉBEC

Health Service System in Québec



Table of Contents

Introduction2

Discussion2

Background of the health services in Québec:3

Health Services Problems in Québec:5

Changes that help in improving the health system:8

Conclusion11

References13

Appendix15

Health Service System in Québec

Introduction

Established by the Act regarding health services espoused in the month of December of the year 1971, the Health and Social Service system of Québec aspires for restoring, maintaining and improving the well-being and health of the citizens through forming a health and social services set, which is accessible by the general population. Health and social services, in Québec, are incorporated within a single administration. The Québec system's particular characteristic makes it probable for responding to the population's each well-being and health needs and stands for a most important test that is to be taken up within the context of mode of services organization. For ensuring fair accessibility to services and quality care for each citizen, the Act regarding the health services suggests an organization model, which is on the basis of three stages of governance and the complementarity of organizations assembled into networks. This paper discusses the health service system in Québec in a holistic context, and discusses the problem in the health service system. Furthermore, the paper identifies and implements the concrete changes, which assist in enhancing the health service system for offering the community health services that are accessible by each person with quality. In addition to this, the paper ensures that the changes are supported by the three values of equity, efficiency and individual liberty.

Discussion

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, healthcare and medicine have experienced remarkable changes. This is only because of the numerous important discoveries within the medical field; development has been made in technology, hygiene and scientific knowledge. A number of western countries, in the latter half of the twentieth century, instituted systems of universal public healthcare. Due to this, the population of Québec and the remaining Canadian population currently gain from the free-of-charge social and healthcare services.

Background of the health services in Québec:

Prior to the decade of the 60s, although health was the responsibility of the province, the State of Québec was almost missing from the field of healthcare, deserting it away to the private sector. Québec took the responsibility of merely the needy, leaving the majority of the population devoid of all forms of social safety. Religious guidelines also had a considerable part in offering healthcare and operating majority of the hospitals in the state of Québec. Vaccination campaigns and public information were frequently realized by the cities. Starting in the quite early period of the twentieth century, each municipality turned out as being quite apprehensive with the hygiene of the people, particularly in the old neighborhoods of working class, in which water supply and sewers were insufficient and the citizens frequently inhabited in unsanitary, overcrowded conditions. In the year 1911, the establishment of milk stations or Gouttes de lait that offered each mother with counseling in addition to the quality milk for their off-springs, was a fine instance of ...