Not only is the health sector feminized, but women — particularly racialized women — are more likely to be in jobs at the low end of the pay scale, but that require prolonged contact with patients.
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The shortage of family doctors affects not only patients, but the entire health-care system. A strong primary care foundation increases average lifespan, improves overall health and reduces costs.
A national procurement program for essential medicines could provide a principled, evidence-based solution to the current challenges facing a national pharmacare program in Canada.
Education has a role to play in addressing the shortage of family doctors. A new program is designed specifically for comprehensive, community-based family practice.
Each encounter that health-care students have with patients and families helps them understand real-world patient needs. That means all Canadians have a role in educating future health-care providers.
Now is the time to learn from the COVID-19 response through an action-oriented independent inquiry focused on accountability. Reforms to data generation, access and use are essential.
Recruiting internationally educated health workers is a key part of Canada’s proposed solution to the health worker crisis. But there are ethical questions about recruiting from foreign countries.
Bill C-7 has created ethical tensions between MAID providers and palliative care, between transparency and patient privacy, and between offering a dignified death rather than a dignified life.
People with long COVID report that their symptoms are dismissed or not treated seriously by health-care providers. This medical gaslighting not only prevents treatment but can cause stigma and shame.
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.
Ambulance response times have not always met targets, but the alarming new pinch point in our health-care system is that there are no ambulances at all available to respond to calls.
U.K. health worker protests echo issues in Canada. They are also a harbinger of future labour disputes and systemic collapse if austerity, underinvestment and neglect of health workers continue.
At the dawn of Medicare, Saskatchewan’s community co-op clinics pioneered team-based, holistic care. Now, with the health system in crisis 60 years later, it may be time to return to that care model.
Taxation of sugar-sweetened drinks is not only inequitable, but also has the potential to create or perpetuate weight stigma, which has negative effects on mental and physical health.
Aging out of the supportive world of pediatric care at a vulnerable time in life can pose risks to teens with chronic health conditions as they enter the resource-strapped adult care system.
Innovation in primary care for COPD patients has the potential to alleviate a significant strain on the health system by reducing emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
A strong primary care system keeps patients away from emergency departments and helps patients self-manage illnesses. But Ontario’s plan to ease pressure on emergency rooms ignores family medicine.
Managing a chronic health condition can make the transition to post-secondary education more complex.
Delirium doesn’t just harm vulnerable seniors. It prolongs hospital stays, ties up beds and clogs emergency rooms. Mandating senior-friendly hospital care protects patients and the health-care system.
Person-centred care sees the patient as a whole, unique individual and puts them at the centre of their health decisions.
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Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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MD (Internal Medicine Resident) & PhD candidate (Focus on Geriatrics), Dalhousie University
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Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Queen's University, Ontario
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Dean, Queen's Health Sciences, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor, Nursing, MacEwan University
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Educational Developer, Health Sciences, Office of Professional Development & Educational Scholarship, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor and Program Director, Occupational Therapy Department, University of South Dakota
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Associate Professor and Executive Director, Entry-to-Practice Education, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
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Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Professor, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Canada Research Chair in Health Justice, University of Toronto
