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The COVID-19 pandemic presents us with a unique opportunity to rethink and reform public health care in Canada. That’s why premiers’ demands for more unconditional health-care dollars are so misguided.
Food security is crucial to disease prevention and management, so prescribing healthy foods and reducing barriers to better diets makes sense. But food prescriptions should not be immune to scrutiny.
For most Québec residents, there is broad consensus that French should be protected. But many of us believe that multilingualism need not threaten French.
Canada’s health system does not include dental coverage, leaving a large gap in care that’s existed since its beginning. It’s time to ensure access to oral care.
Such an expansive scheme is very expensive. It has been costed at A$77.6 billion over the next decade, funded with new taxes on big corporations and billionaires.
While policy organizations publicly claim that they want input from racialized and other marginalized communities, many fail to listen to, accept or integrate what those communities have to say.
In future health emergencies and possibly further waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, caution needs to be taken when extending cancer waiting times for reasons unrelated to patients’ health-care needs.
We need to document and investigate these attacks, including testimonies from health workers, if we are ever to see these war crimes prosecuted.
There are growing applications of artificial intelligence in health sciences education. Students and practitioners need to be educated on using these technologies and made aware of their implications.
France’s per-capita death toll from Covid-19 is higher than the average for high-income countries. A lack of prevention and the initial rigidity of the French system are largely to responsible.
Our society has never explicitly debated whether the health-care industry is more important than other critical sectors, like education, as governments impose lockdowns.
Communication breakdowns between doctors and their patients have real-life consequences and can result in poorer health outcomes and sicker patients.
When you prepare to talk about end-of-life decisions and the legacy you want to leave behind, try thinking about them as gifts you bestow to family and friends.
Sen. Manchin effectively killed one of Biden’s key economic priorities by withdrawing his support from the $2 trillion bill.
More cases of long COVID can put strain on our health system. So we need to think about where and how we offer care.
The US has a growing demand for nurses. Yet nursing schools are turning away many qualified candidates.
Black American women have disproportionate HIV infection rates – in part because of systemic and structural racism in the health care system.
World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14 marks an increase in diabetes deaths and new diagnoses as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hinder care for chronic conditions.
Less than half of Canadians can see their doctor same-day, and millions don’t even have a family doctor. Improving access to care means providing doctors with the support they need to focus on patients.
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Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, University of Newcastle
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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George Dock Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan
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Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Full Professor in Economics, ERUDITE, UPEC (on leave) / Visiting Professor, Health Care Policy Department, Harvard Medical School and French Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice (The Commonwealth Fund) (2021-2022), Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
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Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, University at Albany, State University of New York
