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Brian Day, a "private health-care advocate", [2] who founded and serves as the medical director of the private clinic Cambie Surgery Centre and Specialist Referral Clinic [10] in Vancouver, British Columbia, was the spokesman for the high-profile case, sometimes called 'The Day Case'. [11] [12]
The Department of Health and Welfare was formally established on October 1, 1946, with George Pearson as the inaugural minister. [6] During the first term of the Gordon Campbell government, a separate Ministry of Health Planning was created (led by Sindi Hawkins) but that ministry was later merged back into the main ministry. [7]
Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) is a publicly funded health service provider in the province of British Columbia.PHSA is unique in Canada as the only health authority having a province-wide mandate for specialized health services, although within British Columbia the First Nations Health Authority is also non-regional and highly dispersed.
The WHO did not merely consider health care outcomes, but also placed heavy emphasis on the health disparities between rich and poor, funding for the health care needs of the poor, and the extent to which a country was reaching the potential health care outcomes they believed were possible for that nation. In an international comparison of 21 ...
In 2006, the Government of British Columbia threatened to shut down one private clinic because it was planning to start accepting private payments from patients. [350] Since 2008, Dr. Brian Day has been suing the British Columbia government on the basis that the Canada Health Act is unconstitutional. In 2016, the Government of Quebec was sued ...
The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is the public health arm for British Columbia's Provincial Health Services Authority. [2] The BCCDC is located at 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC. The Centre has tuberculosis [3] and sexually transmitted infections (STI) clinics [4] as well as outreach clinics in high prevalence areas throughout BC.