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The Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan is the system of tax-funded health insurance for residents of the province of Alberta.. Most residents of Alberta who are either Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada, or have refugee status in Canada and who live in Alberta for 183 or more days per year or more and who are not already covered by the health insurance plan of another province ...
In 2002, there were 62 changes made to the Act. [2]: i–vi This included amendments, references and potential changes to other acts such as the Traffic Safety Act, Vital Statistics Act, Election Act, Health Information Act, [3] Mines and Minerals Act, [4] Electronic Transactions Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Municipal Government Act.
An Act to support and promote electronic commerce by protecting the personal information that is collected, used or disclosed in certain circumstances, by providing for the use of electronic means to communicate or record information or transactions, and by amending the Canada Evidence Act, the Statutory Instruments Act and the Statute Revision Act
The Canada Health Act covers the services of psychiatrists, medical doctors with additional training in psychiatry. In Canada, psychiatrists tend to focus on the treatment of mental illness with medication. [67] However, the Canada Health Act excludes care provided in a "hospital or institution primarily for the mentally disordered."
Canadian privacy law has evolved over time into what it is today. The first instance of a formal law came when, in 1977, the Canadian government introduced data protection provisions into the Canadian Human Rights Act. [2]
In September 2008, a 393-page report sponsored by several Canadian newspaper groups, compared Canada's Access to Information Act to the FOI laws of the provinces and of 68 other nations titled: Fallen Behind: Canada's Access to Information Act in the World Context. [8] In 2009, The Walrus (magazine) published a detailed history of FOI in Canada ...
CIHI was incorporated under the Canada Corporations Act in 1994. [1] Federal, provincial, and territorial governments created CIHI as a "not-for-profit, independent organization dedicated to forging a common approach to Canadian health information". [2] CIHI has a unique mandate to make health information "publicly available" to Canadians. [2]
Health regions, also called health authorities, are a governance model used by Canada's provincial and territorial governments to administer and deliver public health care to all Canadian residents. Health care is designated a provincial responsibility under the separation of powers in Canada's federal system. Most health regions or health ...