Lack of access to Canadian healthcare services in rural areas

10 to 12 pages (double-spaced), plus
references and bibliography
1) identify the
issues, 2) identify the changes you believe are
needed, and 3) discuss the approach you would propose to implement these
changes.
My intro which you can change but please use telemedicine as one way.
One of the tenants of the Canadian Health Act (CHA) is “persons must
have reasonable and uniform access to insured health services, free of
financial or other barriers”. However, of the 18% of Canadians living in
rural communities, only 8% of practicing physicians serve rural communities
(Wilson et al., 2020). Thus, many rural communities have limited access to not
only physicians but many health services. Rural areas have the highest
socioeconomical burden with limited available services (Jong et al., 2019). Additionally, northern Canada consists largely
of indigenous populations, in having decreased health services within these
regions, thus, largening the health care gap between non-indigenous and
indigenous populations adds to inequality (Jong et al., 2019).
Northern Canada struggles
with recruiting and retaining healthcare professionals and when people do
access these services, they tend to have poorer outcomes (Wilson et al., 2020).
Surprisingly, there is little evidence based rural-health care planning on
national and provincial levels to provide direction and policy seem to be
guided more by urban healthcare models without understanding the potential negative
impacts in rural communities. (Wilson, 2020).
Additionally, providing healthcare to these regions is higher than the
rest of Canada (Jong et al., 2019)
Some changes proposed is 1) Improving retention of healthcare professionals/healthcare
workers 2) Cultural training/ indigionous trained healthcare professionals 3) Better
utilization of technology or virtual care as a way to allow better training.

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