eBook details
- Title: Future Challenges to Health and Public Health Services in Canada (Invited Commentary) (Report)
- Author : Canadian Journal of Public Health
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 256 KB
Description
Judging by the conventional indicators, there have been unprecedented improvements to the health of Canadians over the past 100 years (to our shame, First Nations and Inuit Canadians have not shared proportionately in these). Will the improvements continue? Or have we reached a peak from which we cannot expect to climb much higher? Will the present population health status be sustained in the future, or will it deteriorate? What challenges do public health specialists face in coming decades? My track record in predicting the future has been mediocre, (1) as often totally wrong as approximately right, so I shall not make specific forecasts. I will consider three kinds of future challenge likely to affect the health of Canadians, and suggest what public health leaders could do to protect Canadians from harm by these challenges. The three categories are environmental, social-demographic, and economic-fiscal. They are interconnected, which complicates effective responses by the public health sector and by society at large.