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Research shows that uninsured people are more likely to get care later in pregnancy, and less care overall. This increases risks for mothers and babies. (Shutterstock)

An emergency in the making: Ending pandemic prenatal health coverage for uninsured people is both costly and dangerous

Manavi Handa, Toronto Metropolitan University

Discontinuing expanded health-care funding will result in less prenatal care for uninsured patients, more health risks, higher costs to the health system, and moral distress for health-care providers.
Many caregivers were prevented from seeing and taking care of their loved ones in long-terms care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

Caregivers were traumatized by COVID-19 public health and long-term care policies

Charlene Chu, University of Toronto and Vivian Stamatopoulos, Ontario Tech University

Family caregivers of residents in longterm care homes experienced a collective trauma as they were kept away from their loved ones during the pandemic. This isolation has long-ranging impacts.

Related Topics

  1. Babies
  2. COVID-19
  3. Health care
  4. Immigration status
  5. Long-term care homes
  6. LTC
  7. Pandemic
  8. Prenatal care
  9. Public health measures
  10. undocumented children

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