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What are the rights and responsibilities of healthcare …

WebIn Canada, many applicable policies and codes of ethics establish that healthcare providers have a duty to care for patients during a pandemic, but also …

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Health care should extend to undocumented migrants

WebHealth care needs to extend to undocumented migrants. Inadequate access to preventative care causes avoidable suffering and puts pressure on emergency …

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Big changes are coming to health and social programs

WebBig changes are coming to health and social programs. The Liberals have promised $23.7 billion in new transfer payments to the provinces and territories. …

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Health and disease are issues of national security

WebCanada does, however, need to take public health and disease challenges seriously as a security issue. The notion of a health intelligence mission is crucial to …

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Substance use is a huge cost for the health-care system.

WebSubstance use is adding significant stress to Canada’s already-strained health-care system. More than 200 people in Canada die every day because of it and …

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Excising racism from health care requires Indigenous …

WebCanada’s history of colonization has laid the foundation for the implementation of racist health policy and the delivery of culturally unsafe health care, resulting in …

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Health-care accounts could help control costs

WebHealth-care accounts could help control costs. System users could help reduce the burden on the overcrowded system by managing how they use medical care. …

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Health care crisis: the fault of (federal) funding or …

WebIn 2023, three times as many Canadians believe their health care system is in crisis than in the three surveys of the 2010s (28 per cent in 2023, compared to 10 per …

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Reforming long-term care requires a diversity and equity …

WebIn the coming months, Canada’s Health Standards Organization (HSO) will develop a national LTC services standard with a focus that reflects current discussions …

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What’s preventing Canada from creating a robust health …

WebWithout recognizing and addressing these blockages, Canada can’t move forward to create the robust health data infrastructure we so desperately need. The …

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Canadian health care needs a dose of retention and a shot of tech

WebWhen health ministers from across Canada met in mid-October, staffing was the top issue on their agenda, for good reason. The opening line of a recent House of …

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What did we learn from SARS and H1N1

WebOntario’s H1N1 pandemic report, written by the former Ontario chief medical officer of health Arlene King in 2010, concluded with a strong recommendation for …

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Why home economics classes still matter

WebJoyce Slater, of the University of Manitoba, identified a dramatic decline in that province from 2000 to 2010 in the enrolment of students in home economics classes …

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Social programs should unite, not divide, Canadians

WebSocial programs should unite, not divide, Canadians. Yes, universal programs like medicare are expensive and inefficient. But they serve a subtle, critical role …

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Canada needs to beef up its global health diplomacy

WebTo better equip Canada for these new challenges, this new global health diplomacy course will be offered online by the School’s Centre for Global Health in …

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The Canada Health Act needs to be updated

WebThe Canada Health Act needs to be updated. The "hospital-physician-centric" nature of the CHA is not appropriate for care provided outside hospitals or by …

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Lessons from Ontario on big hospital funding changes

WebLessons from Ontario on big hospital funding changes. by September 26, 2018. If there’s one thing provincial governments across Canada can agree on, it’s that …

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Canada has a health-care investment problem

WebCanada has a health-care investment problem. by October 21, 2021. Political pundits deploy talking points about health care seemingly with frequency and …

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Enabling digital health care solutions in Canada

WebOne can envision, if it were set up anew today, that a publicly funded Canadian health system would be enabled by human-centred digital tools. And, in fact, …

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