The Future of Healthcare in Canada

The Canadian universal health coverage is at risk of becoming outdated if if there is a lack of strong political vision and courage to strengthen it. Three health policy challenges that need to be addressed are long waits for elective health care services, inequitable access to services outside of the public's health care services, and sustained poor health outcomes for Indigenous populations. To address these challenges Governments, health-care providers and the public must commit to solidarity, equity and obligations of the system (Martin et al., 2018). Other areas of improvements that need to be changed to improve our overburdened healthcare system are having more services for seniors care, modern chronic illness management services to include from acute care to home treatment. Also, due to the large array of data available today and an increasing understanding of diseases the quality of care hospitals deliver has been improving. Data management is noted to be a main area of improvement to bring healthcare systems up to the 21st century standards (Personal Health News, 2019).

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Riddell, C. (2019). The future of canada's healthcare system. Personal Health News. Retrieved from www.personalhealthnews.ca/news/the-future-of-canada's- healthcare-system