The focus of health care reform is to contribute to better patient health and maintain an equitable access to the system while at the same time achieving a more effective and efficient use of increasingly scarce health care dollars. Due to budgetary and other restraints provincial governments are either spending less on health care or are looking to change the delivery and management of the health industry. / How the Canadian health care system responds to the challenges depends upon the interpretation of a number of factors. Three basic factors which are linked to any health care delivery system are financing, delivery and allocation of resources with the altering of one of these components affecting the others. / Has there developed a right to health care and if so, would this foreclose a curtailment of health care services? If there is no right to health care, can the courts or the Charter of Rights and Freedoms be used to protect the existing system? Is it possible for public interest groups, or others, to utilize judicial intervention to force a government, either at the provincial or federal level, to spend more on health care or change their health care policy? What if a patient is affected by decision affecting health care delivery, does this bring in civil liability? / This thesis will review these areas in an effort to understand, articulate and ascribe values to Canada's health care system and provide a legal and ethical analysis of alternative health care delivery systems.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.21695 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Muirhead, Paul. |
| Contributors | Glenn, H. Patrick (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Laws (Institute of Comparative Law.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001651005, proquestno: MQ50953, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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