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Health ServicesHealth services, particularly those intended to maintain and promotehealth, prevent disease, and restore function contribute to health. 111Access to health services as well as the quality of those services canaffect health. The health system influences health through its capacity topromote equitable access to health care and inter-sectoral action toimprove health status. 112 Although Canada's has a publicly funded healthcare system, barriers exist in terms of physical accessibility, geographicisolation, sociocultural issues, and the cost of non-insured healthservice. 113 Many low and moderate-income Canadians have limited or noaccess to health services such as eye care, dentistry, mental healthcounselling and prescription drugs.Health services also include many health promotion activities and diseaseprevention measures such as vaccination to reduce communicablediseases, food safety programs to prevent outbreaks of food-bornediseases, and vector control for reduce the incidence of vector-bornediseases.Healthy Toronto by Design | Toronto Public Health, October 201121