Case Study Of Jordan River Anderson's Home Care
1. The Jordan’s principle states that “in the event of a jurisdictional dispute over funding for a First Nation child, the government of first contact will pay for services and seek cost sharing later”.
This is a Private Member’s Motion introduced in the House of Commons by the enraged Aboriginal leader’s and children’s advocate over the jurisdictional disputes between provincial and federal government regarding providing health services to Aboriginal people. Jordan River Anderson, born in 1999, was a young child from Manitoba’s Norway House Cree Nation, with a rare neuromuscular disorder. His whole life was spent in institutional hospital because there was dispute between federal and provincial government regarding payment for his home care. …show more content…
In 1867, British North America Act (BNA) was introduced, in which health services were under provincial government and Indian affairs were under federal government. So, this create dispute for the health service of Aboriginal people. In 1876, an Indian Act was passed for health issues of Indian people, but there was no legislative authority for Indian health given to federal government. In 1939, a Supreme court ruling confirmed the federal government’s legal responsibility for the Inuit without addressing health. Thus, for Inuit who are living in their traditional territories and the First Nations peoples living on-reserve, health care was predominately the federal government’s responsibility, while other Aboriginal groups, with few exceptions, fall under the provincial or territorial …show more content…
The frameworks are typically committee-based and bring together stakeholders in Aboriginal health such as Aboriginal organizations and federal and provincial government departments. For example, Ontario’s Aboriginal Health and Wellness Strategy (AHWS), developed in 1994, is managed by a Joint Management Committee consisting of two representatives from each of the eight Aboriginal umbrella organizations in Ontario, as well as several government Ministries and departments.
• Intergovernmental health authorities: They are formal organizations created either through federal-provincial partnerships or self-government agreements. Examples of this are the unique health care structures that emerged because of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement.
Modern treaties and the granting of self-government status are other mechanisms by which opportunities are being created for Aboriginal engagement in health policy and service delivery.
• Alternative Options for health care: There should be a framework made for noncompliance and trial error agreement should be introduced. A framework should be made which is not so complex and which can easily state which jurisdiction is going to take legal authority for health care services of Aboriginal
This is a Private Member’s Motion introduced in the House of Commons by the enraged Aboriginal leader’s and children’s advocate over the jurisdictional disputes between provincial and federal government regarding providing health services to Aboriginal people. Jordan River Anderson, born in 1999, was a young child from Manitoba’s Norway House Cree Nation, with a rare neuromuscular disorder. His whole life was spent in institutional hospital because there was dispute between federal and provincial government regarding payment for his home care. …show more content…
In 1867, British North America Act (BNA) was introduced, in which health services were under provincial government and Indian affairs were under federal government. So, this create dispute for the health service of Aboriginal people. In 1876, an Indian Act was passed for health issues of Indian people, but there was no legislative authority for Indian health given to federal government. In 1939, a Supreme court ruling confirmed the federal government’s legal responsibility for the Inuit without addressing health. Thus, for Inuit who are living in their traditional territories and the First Nations peoples living on-reserve, health care was predominately the federal government’s responsibility, while other Aboriginal groups, with few exceptions, fall under the provincial or territorial …show more content…
The frameworks are typically committee-based and bring together stakeholders in Aboriginal health such as Aboriginal organizations and federal and provincial government departments. For example, Ontario’s Aboriginal Health and Wellness Strategy (AHWS), developed in 1994, is managed by a Joint Management Committee consisting of two representatives from each of the eight Aboriginal umbrella organizations in Ontario, as well as several government Ministries and departments.
• Intergovernmental health authorities: They are formal organizations created either through federal-provincial partnerships or self-government agreements. Examples of this are the unique health care structures that emerged because of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement.
Modern treaties and the granting of self-government status are other mechanisms by which opportunities are being created for Aboriginal engagement in health policy and service delivery.
• Alternative Options for health care: There should be a framework made for noncompliance and trial error agreement should be introduced. A framework should be made which is not so complex and which can easily state which jurisdiction is going to take legal authority for health care services of Aboriginal