Health Management Problems

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Health Management Problems
Introduction
Among the many problems in the Canadian health care system, the most outstanding issues are the nursing shortage, access to the health care system, wait times for care, and how certain resources are allocated. While I will discuss those issues, my focus will be on the nursing shortage and wait times. Both of these issues share many of the same misunderstandings and solutions have been proposed without careful identification of the causes. I will argue that the main cause of the nursing shortage in Canada and most especially in Ontario was a system of indiscriminate government cuts for the sake of efficiency and cost effectiveness (
Uyen
, 2005, p. 1). The outcome has been the direct opposite of what...

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