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Autonomy, Equality, and Access to Sexual and Reproductive …
WebThe focus of this article is on access to sexual and reproductive health care, an essential aspect of reproductive justice. Although the scope of the problem is unknown, there are reasons to question whether Canadian women are able to access reproductive and sexual health services such as contraception and abortion. The author discusses …
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Health Information Privacy and the Law: Narrowing Alberta's
WebCurrent Alberta law does not adequately respond to violations of health information privacy. While privacy is an ill-defined concept in general, there is no uncertainty as to the importance of privacy in relation to personal health information. The increasing use of electronic means to generate and store health information creates an urgent demand …
Health, Poverty and the Elderly: Can the Courts Make a Difference
WebThis article analyzes the relationship among health, poverty and the elderly and provides a basis for understanding the problems facing the aging population. The author suggests that the existing universal health care system in Canada has serious limitations in ameliorating these problems. She proposes that a combination of strategies such as …
AUTONOMY EQUALITY AND A S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH …
Webuse health care services and to actually have the need for services fulfilled.”3 Access to sexual and reproductive health services is an essential piece — albeit certainly not the only one — of reproductive justice,4 and its absence from public discussion about women’s equal participation is notable.
The Future of Precarious Status Migrants' Right to Health Care in
WebThis article examines how health care services in Canada are denied to precarious status migrants, either through outright exclusion based on immigration status, or due to the realities in migrants’ lives that make it difficult for them to access health care services. The author argues that this situation is unfair, given the contribution made by …
Health Care Reform: Can Tort Law Meet the Challenge
WebThis article discusses the legal implications of the current trend toward cost containment and restructuring in the Canadian health care system. It examines the remedies available to patients who have been negatively affected by cost containment decisions. Because physicians have ultimate control over the allocation of medical …
First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Women's Health: A Rights-Based …
WebThe health status of Aboriginal women in Canada is disparagingly low as compared to the non-Aboriginal population. The implementation of male centred legislation, policies, and institutions that are the hallmark of Canada’s colonial history have had a long-lasting impact on the health of Aboriginal women. Although Aboriginal women have …
Patient Privacy in a Wired (and Wireless) World: Approaches to …
WebThe author reviews recent changes in legislation in Canada and abroad in the area of patient privacy. consent and electronic health records (EHRs). In her overview of Canadian legislation, she examines the existing patchwork of legal requirements, as well as ethical obligations governing health information and policy initiatives aimed at …
Alberta’s Mental Health Review Panels: Accountable, Transparent
WebThis article examines issues of accountability and transparency in Alberta’s Mental Health Review Panel process. A person who is involuntarily admitted to a mental health facility, or who is subject to a community treatment order (CTO), can appeal to the Review Panel to have their admission certificates or CTO cancelled. This process is …
THE FUTURE OF PRECARIOUS STATUS MIGRANTS RIGHT TO …
WebPRECARIOUS STATUS MIGRANTS’ RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE 649 THE FUTURE OF PRECARIOUS STATUS MIGRANTS’ RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE IN CANADA Y.Y. BRANDON CHEN* This article examines how health care services in Canada are denied to precarious status migrants, either through outright exclusion based on immigration …
Efficiency and the Pursuit of Patient Safety Alberta Law Review
WebEfficiency and patient safety are two important intersecting health policy goals. Efficiency should not be exploited for political expediency, but instead balanced against concerns with patient safety. Too often, the concept of efficiency has been used to justify cost saving or cost containment measures that create further adverse effects.
Vol 54, No 3: Special Issue: Health Law Alberta Law Review
WebWelcome to the Alberta Law Review. The Alberta Law Review (ALR) is a student-run publication whose primary purpose is to enhance discourse on Canadian legal issues. Founded in 1955, the ALR is published by the Alberta Law Review Society, an organization consisting of law students at the University of Alberta and the University of …
The Global Governance of Infectious Diseases: The World Health
WebThe 2003 SARS outbreak exemplified both the porous boundaries for infectious disease due to globalization and the inadequacy of global governance of public health. The World Health Organization (WHO), whose mission is to play a leading role in the protection and promotion of global public health, recently adopted a revision of its …
PUBLIC HEALTH LAW: POWER, DUTY, RESTRAINT BY …
Webhealth law, but it is conceivable that it could become so in the not-too-distant future. Moreover, in describing the evolution of public health regulation in the United States, Gostin describes many elements that mirror the Canadian landscape. Not least important amongst these common elements is the confusion around public health regulation
Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages for Public Health: Legal and …
WebThis article examines the potential use of taxes to increase the price of sugar-sweetened beverages in an attempt to curb consumption, improve public health, and generate revenue that can be used to support other public health initiatives. In doing so, it first considers the arguments for and against such a tax, including economic, political, and health …
Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint by Lawrence O. Gostin
WebWelcome to the Alberta Law Review. The Alberta Law Review (ALR) is a student-run publication whose primary purpose is to enhance discourse on Canadian legal issues. Founded in 1955, the ALR is published by the Alberta Law Review Society, an organization consisting of law students at the University of Alberta and the University of …
ALBERTA S MENTAL HEALTH REVIEW PANELS ACCOUNTABLE …
WebThis article examines issues of accountability and transparency in Alberta’s Mental Health Review Panel process. A person who is invol untarily admitted to a mental health facility, or who is subject to a community treatment order (CTO), can appeal to the Review Panel to have their admission certificates or CTO cancelled.
Quebec's Public Health Ethics Committee: A Model for the Public …
WebThe federal government of Canada has recently undertaken to modernize its public health infrastructure, including setting up the Public Health Agency of Canada (Agency). The structure and organizational features of this Agency are still being determined, however. After a brief discussion of public health ethics, this article …
A Constitutional Future for Abortion Rights in Canada
WebIn 2015, Abortion Access Now PEI legally challenged the restrictive abortion policy of Prince Edward Island. This article studies their challenge as a unique case in the building of a constitutional future for abortion rights in Canada. The article tracks how AAN PEI drew on classic rule of law arguments of transparency, accountability, and …
Indigenous Mental Health: Imagining a Future Where Action …
WebWelcome to the Alberta Law Review. The Alberta Law Review (ALR) is a student-run publication whose primary purpose is to enhance discourse on Canadian legal issues. Founded in 1955, the ALR is published by the Alberta Law Review Society, an organization consisting of law students at the University of Alberta and the University of …
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