Access and Medical Care: Disability and Ethnicity

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Access and Medical CareDisability and Ethnicity
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The Issue of Access

• Canadian health care system as accessible?
• The concept of Equity of care access
• Some of the barriers mentioned in StatCan report

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Ethnicity and Access

• Immigration contributing to the population growth
  more than any other factor
• Immigrants face multiple barriers when accessing
  health care.
• Language
• Cost
• Location
• Community, etc.

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Problems with policy

• Accessing health care for general population is
  not so bad...but is this picture skewed?
• Immigrants are left out of the equation
  altogether.

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Three Themes in Research

• Geographic Accessibility to Care
• Socio-Cultural Accessibility
• Economic Accessibility

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Chinese Immigrants

• Language barriers
• Understanding from patients point of view
• Waiting lists too long
• Gender discrepancies

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Accessibility Issues within Disability

• Creating the notion of disability
• Accessibility means something much different to
  people with different challenges (ie. Language,
  physical, mental, etc.)
• Societal constructs of disability

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What does it mean to have access?

• Societal constructs of accessibility
• Discourses of competition(Titchkosky)