• Health Canada (HC; French: Santé Canada, SC) is the department of the Government of Canada responsible for national health policy. The department itself...
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    Healthcare in Canada is delivered through the provincial and territorial systems of publicly funded health care, informally called Medicare. It is guided...
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    including Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada, as well as enforcing the Canada Health Act, the law governing Canada's universal health care...
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    The Canada Health Act (CHA; French: Loi canadienne sur la santé), adopted in 1984, is the federal legislation in Canada for publicly-funded health insurance...
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  • The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC; French: Agence de la santé publique du Canada, ASPC) is an agency of the Government of Canada that is responsible...
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    comparison of the healthcare systems in Canada and the United States is often made by government, public health and public policy analysts. The two countries...
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  • The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides essential information on Canada’s health...
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  • The Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) is a scale designed in Canada to help understand the impact of air quality on health. It is a health protection tool...
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    Canadian Nursing. Wolters Kluwer Health. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-4963-9850-5. "How Healthy are Canadians?". Public Health Agency of Canada. 2017. "Health at...
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  • The Canada Health Transfer (CHT) (French: Transfert canadien en matière de santé) is the Canadian government's transfer payment program in support of...
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    The chief public health officer of Canada (CPHO; French: administratrice en chef de la santé publique; ACSP) is the lead health professional and primary...
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  • The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR; French: Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada; IRSC) is a federal agency responsible for funding...
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  • The Canadian Health Network (CHN) was established in 1999 as a national, bilingual health promotion service operated by the Public Health Agency of Canada...
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  • Health regions, also called health authorities, are a governance model used by Canada's provincial and territorial governments to administer and deliver...
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    Purposes Regulations, issued by Health Canada and seed, grain, and fibre production was permitted under licence by Health Canada. The federal Cannabis Act came...
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  • Comparable Health Indicators". Health Canada First Nations, Inuit & Aboriginal Health Diseases & Health Conditions. Government of Canada. 16 March 2007...
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  • The Department of National Health and Welfare (NHW), commonly known as Health and Welfare Canada, was a Canadian federal department established in 1944...
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  • Canada Health Infoway is an independent, federally funded, not-for-profit organization tasked with accelerating the adoption of digital health solutions...
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    Calgary. The Canadian Press. Retrieved 1 February 2024. "Final Report of the Expert Panel on MAiD and Mental Illness". 13 May 2022. Canada, Health (2022)....
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    Health Canada recalled eight products from Spirit Halloween, for fire hazards and choking hazards. Despite promising to cease sales, Health Canada visited...
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    Bayer (redirect from Bayer HealthCare LLC)
    Yasmin pills linked to 23 deaths, say Health Canada documents". Macleans. The Canadian Press. 11 June 2013. "Health Canada reviewing safety of drospirenone-containing...
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    single-payer healthcare system of Canada. Canada's health care system consists of 13 provincial and territorial health insurance plans, which provide universal...
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    entry. Canada severely restricted its border access, barring travelers from all countries with some exceptions. The federal Minister of Health invoked...
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    consumption is associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes. In 2012, Health Canada stated that "the evidence to date from clinical trials and prospective...
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    Tartrazine (section Canada)
    allergens alert section. The Canadian Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS), a prescribing reference book for health professionals, mentions...
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  • Digital Health Canada, formerly known as COACH, Canada's Health Informatics Association runs the COACH e-Health Conference, a Canadian conference and trade...
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    cognitive function than lesser exposed co-workers". Citing human health reasons, Health Canada barred the sale of insect repellents for human use that contained...
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    First Nations across Canada. Aboriginal Right to Self-Government provides opportunity to manage historical, cultural, political, health care and economic...
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    phytosterol consumption and cholesterol lowering for reduced CVD risk. Health Canada reviewed the evidence of 84 randomized controlled trials published between...
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  • The Canada Health and Social Transfer (CHST) was a system of block transfer payments from the Canadian government to provincial governments to pay for...
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