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    Regardless of your political stance, dental care is a service that all people should have access to, privately, or publicly. In the United States alone, millions of Native Americans on reservations are stifled from receiving the much needed dental care they require, the consequences are harmful to their health and prosperity. Tribal sovereignty is defined as the right for an independent tribal authority to govern its members. In regards to dental care, this is the right to train, license, and employ

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    Canada's healthcare system is similar to that of the United States in that services are privately delivered, yet Canada's universal health insurance and public financing of healthcare more closely resemble the systems found in Western Europe (Rakich, 1991). The Canadian healthcare system consists of provincial. and territorial-based health insurance plans that provide universal-comprehensive coverage for medically necessary hospital and physician services, the public funding of healthcare with no

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    financing health care system in 1947 (Cumming et al, 2013) and Singapore had a similar system after its independence in 1965 (Haseltine, 2013). Due to the increasing pressure on public spending in financing health care, both countries have introduced health care reforms since the 1970s to ease the pressure (Li, 2006). New Zealand has experienced a series of reforms which represented a major restructuring of the health system. The reforms have led to the creation of a devolved health care system that

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    Planned parenthood was created by Margaret Sanger, her sister Ethel Byre, and an activist Fania Mindell, and the first center was opened October 16, 1916. The reason Sanger wanted to create centers like this was because her mother had very fragile health conditions on getting pregnant with her children. Therefore Sanger traveled to England to study birth control. Along her way to England she educated as many people as she could on what we was going to do. The first clinic that they opened was shut

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    vulnerable population for oral diseases (Bedos, Levine, & Brodeur, 2009; Petersen et al., 2005). Studies on access to oral health care in the Canadian context have pointed to low-income populations, the unemployed, isolated indigenous populations, and other socio-economically vulnerable groups as people who need oral health services most. These studies have pointed to the poor oral health status of visible minority groups such as immigrants (Calvasina, Muntaner, & Quinonez, 2015; Calvasina, Muntaner, &

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    perceived their health status as good. Results from the descriptive statistical analysis show some remarkable differences in some key socio-economic factors such as education and income, and dependent variables among the three provinces. Respondents from Alberta and Manitoba interviewed in the CCHS survey have over 50 percent of their respondents with a post-secondary level of education, whereas Newfoundland had little

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    the top 25 in the World Index of Healthcare Innovation (Medium, 2023). Canada has a universal healthcare system that is funded through a healthcare system called Medicare. Canada's healthcare system was created by the Canada Health Act and under the act there is a law in place that says it must comply with the five pillars. The five pillars of this system must be universal, publicly administered, have comprehensive coverage, be portable across provinces, and be accessible to the population (Columbia

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    has a dynamic health care system which functions as a publicly-funded, single-payer system. Health care in the country is commonly referred to as Medicare, with spending decisions regarding it being made at the provincial level. In the system, the Canadian government pays for over 70% of total health care which allows for universal health care to be provided to Canadian citizens (“Exploring the 70/30 Split…,” 2005). As a result, citizens do not have to pay out of pocket for health care. Due to factors

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    demands of living in the modern era. Differences in socioeconomic status and existing health care policies contribute to the variation in care quality. Mosadeghrad (2014) noted that factors affecting health care quality can be evaluated using Donabedian measurement to assess technical quality, interpersonal quality, and amenities. Thomas (2014) stated that eliminating health care disparities and improvement of care quality requires changes in policies and legislation to meet the healthcare needs of

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    Introduction The Canadian health care system fosters universal and comprehensive access to essential health care services (Flood, 2004). However, there have been debates on what services are necessary as espoused in the Canada Health Act (Caulfield, 1996; Caulfield & Zarzeczny, 2014; Charles, Lomas, & Giacomini, 1997). Although there are similarities among provinces in terms of core services covered under publicly funded medical care, some variability still exists across provinces (Charles et al

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