It is a proxy measure of the compassion of a society for its most vulnerable, and the commitment of a government to all of its citizens.11. [...] The poorest 20% of The level of poverty in Canada and the health Canadians were responsible for more than 30% of all consequences of living in low income matter to us all since publicly-funded health expenditures while the wealthiest Canada has adopted a collective approach to providing a Canadians consumed less than 15% of total health care universally accessible, publicly-provided health insuran [...] If we could raise the incomes of the The tax revenues of Canadians help support a health care poorest 20% and reduce their health care expenditures to system that Tommy Douglas designed to ensure that the same level as the richest 20% of Canadians, the purchasing health care did not lead to impoverishment and estimated savings in health care would be $7.6 billion per that the poor were not sentenc [...] For every dollar the average family with children had in the poorest 10% of the population, the average family in the richest tenth of the population possessed almost 13 times as much ($12.66) in 2008. [...] The well-being of Aboriginal children is woven into recreation and social services, funding levels unchanged the health of their mothers and their communities and is bound since 1996 for the Aboriginal Friendship Centre Program to the ‘health’ of the different governance systems that shape result in pressure on limited core funding to meet community their ability to access resources.
- ISBN
- 9781894250634
- Pages
- 12
- Published in
- Canada
