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The Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec (RAMQ, often pronounced "ram-q" by French and English speakers alike) is the government health insurance board in the province of Quebec, Canada. The no-longer-official English name is Quebec Health Insurance Board. [1] Under the system, most residents of Quebec have basic health coverage.
The Minister of Health and Social Services (in French: Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux) is responsible for the administration of health and social services in the province of Quebec since June 1985. The Minister of Social Affairs was previously responsible for this duty.
A social insurance number card. Note the date of expiration, which implies that the holder is neither a permanent resident nor a Canadian citizen. A social insurance number (SIN) (French: numéro d'assurance sociale (NAS)) is a number issued in Canada to administer various government programs. The SIN was created in 1964 to serve as a client ...
The International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICVP), also known as the Carte Jaune or Yellow Card, is an official vaccination report created by the World Health Organization (WHO). [1] As a travel document, it is a kind of medical passport that is recognised internationally and may be required for entry to certain countries where ...
The Canada Health Act (CHA; French: Loi canadienne sur la santé), [1] adopted in 1984, is the federal legislation in Canada for publicly-funded health insurance, commonly called "medicare", and sets out the primary objective of Canadian healthcare policy. [2]
On June 8, 2021, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister announced that the province would be providing secure vaccination cards in digital and paper form linked to the provincial health card to be used for proof of vaccination status. Users of this vaccine passport, the first in Canada, faced fewer COVID-19 public health restrictions. [2]
Medicare (French: assurance-maladie) is an unofficial designation used to refer to the publicly funded single-payer healthcare system of Canada. Canada's health care system consists of 13 provincial and territorial health insurance plans, which provide universal healthcare coverage to Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and depending on the province or territory, certain temporary residents.
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Quebec (French: Campagne de vaccination contre la Covid-19 au Québec) was a provincial effort to distribute and administer vaccines against COVID-19. Quebec received their first shipments of COVID-19 vaccines on December 13, 2020. [2] Priority vaccination of long-term care home residents and healthcare ...