We have built a sickness care system rather than a health system This convocation speech was delivered to graduating MDs at the University of Manitoba on the receipt of an honorary doctorate on May 14, 2015. André Picard is a health reporter and columnist at The Globe and Mail, where he has been a staff […]
National Medicare Week has just passed, buoyed with optimism as a fresh-faced government takes the reins in Ottawa — elected partly on a promise of renewed federal leadership on health care. Yet these “sunny ways” are overcast by recent developments at the provincial level that entrench and legitimize two-tier care. Saskatchewan has just enacted a licensing […]
Practiques d’accèss et modes et circulations The Research Chair Pocosa/Policies, Knowledge and Health hosted a round-table discussion in Montreal on November 26, 2015 about the use of administrative data in the health care sector. Health data is still largely under-exploited by researchers and civil society. How can these databases be used to better analyze and reform the health care system […]
There are approximately 30,000 foster kids in Canada. Manitoba has the highest rates in Canada, with 10,000 kids in care. Canada does not have a national strategy for the provision of child protection services and does not keep reliable national statistics on kids in care, making it difficult to fully grasp the problem, says Dr. […]
Our health system often divides mental health from physical health into distinct silos of care and treatment, yet no such mind-body duality exists in actual patients.
With a federal campaign in full force grabbing the majority of the headlines, a significant threat to Canada’s most treasured national program is going largely unnoticed.
What happens to kids who authorities determine can’t live safely with their own parents or caregivers? Thousands of Canadian children are in this situation right now.
Une nouvelle étude sur l’autisme semble être publiée chaque semaine, et trop souvent, on retrouve des erreurs ou d’importantes lacunes dans la couverture médiatique. Nous sommes toutes deux, mères de fils autiste et travaillons dans le domaine de la santé publique; c’est pourquoi nous croyons qu’il est important de partager quelques points essentiels qu’un journaliste devrait considérer lorsqu’il couvre ce sujet.
Se pourrait-il que l’idée d’un revenu annuel garanti – considérée autrefois comme radicale – ait mûri au point où certains envisageraient de l’adopter?
Les gouvernements canadiens n’ont pas fait beaucoup pour remédier à la situation critique que vivent les familles d’enfants autistes. Cela était vrai en 2007 au moment de la publication, par un comité sénatorial interpartis, d’un rapport sur le traitement de l’autisme judicieusement intitulé Payer maintenant ou payer plus tard. Et ce l’était encore jusqu’à tout récemment.
