Canada is sidelining qualified doctors while many Canadians struggle to find health care. Here’s what we can and must do better for internationally trained physicians.
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Canada’s whistleblowing laws aren’t working, and governments don’t seem to care. This puts all of us at risk.
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.
Canada’s largely private dental care system exacerbates inequalities and is a barrier to integrating oral health with general health.
The premiers are demanding more funding from the federal government for health care. Yet more cash without real change would be the real betrayal of Canada’s public health-care system.
If Canadians want to know what the privatization of health care looks like, long-term care is a cautionary tale.
Some Canadians go without heat and food to buy their medications. Others simply don’t take them because they can’t afford to. This is why we need a national pharmacare plan.
Research shows that when refugees arrive in Canada they find a health system that is ill-equipped to meet their complex social and psychological needs.
From weekend walks with your doctor to free gym memberships, there is a global movement afoot.
Halting the rapid rise in inflammatory bowel disease will require a proactive approach to medicine, and a focus on the gut.
Will Ottawa’s new advisory council on pharmacare amount to “just another study,” or is a national program truly within reach?
Bold leadership is needed to adapt Canada’s expensive and mediocre health-care system for an aging population struggling with chronic disease.
Top contributors
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Professor, Politics and International Studies, University of Regina
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Associate Professor, Political Science, McMaster University
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Acting Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Queen's University, Ontario
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Stauffer-Dunning Fellow in Global Public Policy and Adjunct Professor at the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, Queen's University, Ontario
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Stauffer-Dunning Chair and Executive Director, Queen's School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Family Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Research Assistant, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
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Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor, Gastroenterology, University of Calgary
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PhD Candidate in Epidemiology, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University
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Professor Emeritus for Public Ethics and Fellow at the Centre for Public Ethics, Martin Luther University College, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Dental Public Health, McGill University
