From our very first meeting, our committee chose to focus on front-line health care services: not on hospitals, but on front-line health care services.

For example, enhancing the Adoption Expense Tax Credit; introducing a new first-time donors super credit to encourage people who have not given to charitable causes to begin doing so, to donate to a charity; expanding tax relief for home care services; providing $30 million to support the construction of housing in Nunavut; investing $20 million in the Nature Conservancy of Canada to continue their work with respect to conserving ecologically sensitive land; providing $3 million to support training in palliative care for front-line health care providers; and committing $3 million to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind to ...[+++]expand library services for the blind and partially sighted.

They represented a range of health insurance providers, healthcare providers, patient ombudsmen, national and regional authorities, patient groups, audit bodies, trade unions and frontline healthcare prescriber organisations.

In regard to the areas of front line and whatnot, every effort that we took in Health Canada was to not cut front line health care services.

The WHO framework for any country wanting to address the problem of injury includes the development of a national plan; the formation of an inter-sectoral injury prevention committee to ensure the proper integration of this issue into different government policies; a national surveillance system, strengthening the national capacity to respond through primary prevention and care; legislation and government programs; the promotion of evidence-based practices; and research and development into primary prevention and care.

Relevant primary health care concepts through interdisciplinary education that results in competencies in mental health promotion, cultural safety and interpersonal relationships are essential to effective primary health care teams