In Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Finland, Sweden, the United States, and Canada, a dentist is a healthcare professional qualified to practice dentistry after graduating with a degree of either Doctor of Dental Surgery ( DDS ) or Doctor of Dental Medicine ( DMD ).

With remaining revenues, St-Laurent oversaw the expansion of Canada's social programs, including establishment of the Canada Council to support the arts, and the gradual expansion of social welfare programs such as family allowances, old age pensions, government funding of university and post-secondary education and an early form of Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for Tommy Douglas ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal healthcare in the late 1960s.

In the United States and Canada, respiratory therapists are healthcare professionals who, after receiving a degree in respiratory medicine or respiratory science complete a credentialing process.

In 2003, the Government in Canada spent $ 2, 998 USD per capita on healthcare as compared to $ 5, 711 USD per capita in the United States, while almost every Canadian citizen is fully covered.

Dr. Brian Day, who acted as President of the CMA in 2007 / 2008, is the owner of the largest private healthcare hospital in Canada and a proponent of mixed public and private healthcare in Canada.

Though the Canada Health Act provides national guidelines for healthcare, the provinces have exclusive jurisdiction over health under the constitution and are free to ignore these guidelines, although if they ignore the guidelines, the federal government may deny federal funding for healthcare.

The first reported cases of CA-MRSA began to appear in the mid-1990s in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Finland, Canada and Samoa, and were notable because they involved people who had not been exposed to a healthcare setting.

In Canada, " Welfare " usually refers specifically to direct payments to poor individuals ( as in the American usage ) and not to healthcare and education spending ( as in the European usage ).

These masks first became popular in the Toronto ( Canada ) healthcare community during the 2003 SARS Crisis.

Pathophysiology is a required area of study for nearly all healthcare professional school programs ( medical, dental, physician assistant, occupational therapy, physical therapy, nurse practitioner, pharmacy, nursing, and paramedic programs ) in the United States, Canada and other countries.

While a Canadian systematic review stated that the differences in the health care systems of Canada and the United States could not alone explain differences in health care outcomes, the study didn't consider that over 44, 000 Americans die every year due to not having a single payer system for healthcare in the United States and it didn't consider the millions more that live without proper medical care due to a lack of insurance.

Canada has only half the obesity rate that the US healthcare system must deal with ( 14. 3 % vs 30. 6 %).

A 2009 Harris / Decima poll found 82 % of Canadians preferred their healthcare system to the one in the United States, more than ten times as many as the 8 % stating a preference for a US-style health care system for Canada while a Strategic Counsel survey in 2008 found 91 % of Canadians preferring their healthcare system to that of the U. S. The same article mentioned that when asked about their own health care instead of the " health care system ," more than half of Americans ( 51. 3 percent ) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared to only 41. 5 percent of Canadians ; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied ( 6. 8 percent ) than Canadians ( 8. 5 percent ).

Single-payer systems may contract for healthcare services from private organizations ( as is the case in Canada ) or may own and employ healthcare resources and personnel ( as is the case in the UK ).

The Department of Agriculture was responsible for healthcare in Canada, between 1867 and 1919, before the Department of Health was created on September 1, 1919.

Means tests for public health insurance were once common but are now illegal, as the Canada Health Act of 1984 requires that all the provinces provide universal healthcare coverage to be eligible for subsidies from the federal government.

Parasiuk has remained active in health-care policy research in Canada, having been a Director of Interhealth Canada Ltd. from 1994 to 2002 and Chairman of Interhealth Canada ( China ) Inc. from 1995 to 2003 and Chairman of the Beijing Toronto International Hospital Co-operative Joint Venture from 1996 to 2001, the first-ever private healthcare facility in Beijing, China.

Chiropractic is well established in the U. S., Canada and Australia and is the " third largest of the doctored health professions ( behind only medicine and dentistry )".

Animal herding professions specialized in the 19th century to include the cowboys of the United States and Canada, charros and vaqueros of Mexico, gauchos and huasos of South America, and the farmers and stockmen of Australia.

Radiation therapists & medical dosimetrists ( in many countries these two professions are often indistinguishable, e. g., Canada, Australia, UK ) have a training in gross anatomy, physiology, radiation protection, and medical physics.

In 1958, Francis became President of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, a union representing civil servants in certain professions.

When the Irish Catholics came to Canada, unlike their counterparts in the United States, they were barred from public office and the professions.

Beginning in 1988, individuals practising one of the professions identified in the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement are able to obtain TN status for legal work in the United States and Canada, creating freedom of labor movement.

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

Two committees of members of the Advisory Board constitute the committees of selection -- one for the selection of Fellows from Canada, the United States, and the English-speaking Caribbean area and one for the selection of Fellows from the Latin American republics and the Republic of the Philippines.

Goodwin was telegrapher for the `` American Telegraph Company '' and the `` Troy and Canada Junction Telegraph Company ''.

During the trip Selkirk decided that the route through Illinois territory to Indiana and the eastern United States was the best route for goods from England to reach Red River and that the United States was a better source of supply for many goods than either Canada or England.

Mrs. Child, who had once apologized for sending editor Palfrey a book on slavery, now confided that she had helped one of Henry Palfrey's slaves escape to Canada some years before, but asked him not to advertise the fact in Louisiana.

Dawson's support for anthropology created impetus for the profession in Canada.

In 1903 he emigrated to Montreal, Canada, but soon relocated to Chicago, Illinois to work for Hull Laboratory.

" Other prestigious architectural awards are the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, the Alvar Aalto Medal ( Finland ), the Carlsberg Architecture Prize ( Denmark ), and the Governor General's Awards ( Canada ).

Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ), the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ), the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ( RAIC ) and the Institute of Architects Bangladesh ( IAB ).

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

Throughout Latin America the word Gringo is also used for any foreigner from the United States, Canada, or Europe, however the true sense of the word is any foreigner.

It hit number 1 in the UK singles chart in April 1972, spending 24 weeks total on the charts, topped the RPM national singles chart in Canada for three weeks, and rose as high as number 11 in the U. S. It is also a controversial instrumental, as it combined pipes with a military band.

The potential punishment for an assault in Canada varies depending on the manner in which the charge proceeds through the court system and the type of assault that is committed.

* 1992 – Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ).

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain.

* Automated banking machine, another term for Automated teller machine used mainly in Canada

Carnegie gave most of his money to establish many libraries, schools, and universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries, as well as a pension fund for former employees.

He founded the Carnegie Hero Fund for the United States and Canada in 1904 ( a few years later also established in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany ) for the recognition of deeds of heroism.

In July 1971, the Apollo 16 astronauts visited Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada for geology training exercises, the first time U. S. astronauts ever did so.