Watch Katherine Fierlbeck on the principle of comprehensiveness in health care

Katherine Fierlbeck joined the Canadian Health Coalition’s Anne Lagacé Dowson to discuss the principle of comprehensiveness found in the Canada Health Act on May 28. The conversation is now available for viewing here.

Comprehensiveness is often confused with other Canada Health Act principles. Fierlbeck clarified the relationship between the principles of comprehensiveness and universality, and the role of provinces in determining what services are covered and who is covered. The political scientist also discussed how Canada does not cover certain health care services covered in other countries but what it does cover, it covers in more depth than in other countries.

Fierlbeck is McCulloch Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University. Fierlbeck is the author of 11 books, including The Boundaries of Medicare with Greg Marchildon, Comparative Health Care Federalism: Competition and Collaboration in Multistate Systems (ed. with H. Palley), Health Care Federalism in Canada: Critical Junctures and Critical Perspectives (ed. with Bill Lahey), and Health Care in Canada: A Citizen’s Guide to Politics and Policies.

Upcoming webinars on the principles of the Canada Health Act

June 4 at 7:00 PM EST

Public Administration with Greg Marchildon, Ontario Research Chair in Health Policy and System Design and Professor at the Institute of Health, Policy and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, co-author of The Boundaries of Medicare, and former director of the Romanow Commission

June 11 at 7:00 PM EST

Accessibility with Colleen Flood, Dean of Law, Queen’s University, and Jane Philpott, Dean of Health Sciences and Director of the School of Medicine, Queen’s University

Missed the webinar on universality with Colleen Fuller or the webinar on portability with Antonia Maioni? Watch it on the Canadian Health Coalition Youtube channel.

The webinar series will set the stage for the Canada Health Act at 40 Research Roundtable, co-hosted by the Canadian Health Coalition and the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, happening on June 20 at the University of Ottawa. Register for the Research Roundtable here.

Tracy Glynn is the National Director of Projects and Operations for the Canadian Health Coalition