The Failure to Provide Equitable Public Health Services in British Columbia and the Case Study of Physician Assistants

Authors

  • Laura Moore Osgoode Hall Law School York University Ignat Kaneff Building 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5203/jcanpa.v1i2.673

Abstract

This paper presents a picture of an impoverished philosophy of health care in Canada. Our system features weakly designed legal protections which cannot help manifest necessary public health interventions beyond the narrowest confines of ‘medical necessity’. The case study used to illustrate this will be British Columbia’s crisis in healthcare provision, coupled with the province’s failure to regulate physician assistants despite persistent lobbying.

References

STATUTES

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Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s 15, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982,

being Schedule B to the Canada Act 1982 (UK), 1982, c 11.

Constitution Act, 1867, 30 & 31 Vict, c 3; RSC 1985 App II, No 5.

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JURISPRUDENCE

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Admin

LR (2d) 87 (Ont Div Court).

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Published

2019-01-07

How to Cite

Moore, L. (2019). The Failure to Provide Equitable Public Health Services in British Columbia and the Case Study of Physician Assistants. The Journal of Canada’s Physician Assistants, 1(2), 32–45. https://doi.org/10.5203/jcanpa.v1i2.673