By Laura Stymiest, Lita Cameron and Chris Harper health, health care, healthcare, overdiagnosis, overtreatment, Podcasts, screening tool, test, treatment
Medical students learn how to manage and treat disease. But once they start meeting patients in clinics and hospitals, they are also confronted with the fact that social factors have a huge impact on health and that their medical interventions might sometimes be limited. Two medical residents, Laura Stymiest and Lita Cameron, and medical student, […]
By Alan Cassels and Eric Bohm and Wendy Levinson health, health care, healthcare, overdiagnosis, overtreatment, Podcasts, screening tool, test, treatment
As technology and medical knowledge progress, doctors and patients have access to many more screening tools. But with the availability of more tests, also comes the risk of overtesting and overdiagnosis, worries health care researcher, Alan Cassels and doctors Wendy Levinson and Eric Bohm. They explain why more medical tests and treatments do not necessarily […]
By access to data, adminsitrative database, Canada, data, database, donnée publiques, données en santé, health, health care, health data, Podcasts, privacy, research, statistics, Système de santé, vie privée
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 in Canada? Are administrative databases a […]
By André Picard, Canada, Doctor, health, health care, Health policy, Health system, healthcare, medicare, patient, physician, Podcasts
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 […]
By Ruth Martin and Fiona Kouyoumdjian correctional facility, Doctor, health, health care, health care in prison, healthcare, incarceration, jail, physician, Podcasts, prison, prisoner
One in 200 Canadians is detained or incarcerated in jail or prison every year, yet their access to health care is a far cry from the services offered in Canadian communities. Dr. Ruth Martin and Dr. Fiona Kouyoumdjian explain how incarceration ー even for short time spans ー can be a time to improve an inmate’s health and reduce […]
By Canada, data, database, health, health care, healthcare, privacy, statistics, Video
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 […]
By Marni Brownell Canada, child protection services, children, children in care, family, foster care, health, health care, kids, parents, Podcasts
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. […]
By Noralou Roos and Mélanie Meloche-Holubowski Canada, evidence, EvidenceNetwork, health care, healthcare, médecine, Podcasts, science
Dr. Noralou Roos founded EvidenceNetwork because she wanted to make sure that the work being done by Canadian researchers was being communicated to people outside the medical community.
By access to health care, Canada, Dental health, EvidenceNetwork, health care, health care system, homelessness, Manitoba students, obesity trends, Opioid crisis, school report, seniors
Here, for your reading pleasure, are the top 10 most read articles from EvidenceNetwork.ca in 2014.
By James McCormack education, health care, Mediterranean diet, Mediterranean food, nutrition, Video
Eat Mediterranean — a nutritional parody of The Eagle’s song Hotel California — when making decisions about nutrition make sure you know the best available evidence