By Kathleen O’Grady and Noralou Roos Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian health care, communications, ebook, Health is more than healthcare, Health policy, Health policy journalism, healthcare, social media
An average paper in a peer-reviewed academic journal is read by no more than 10 people, according to Singapore-based academic, Asit Biswas, and Oxford-researcher, Julian Kirchherr, in their controversial commentary, “Prof, no one is reading you,” which went viral last year.
By Kathleen O’Grady autism, Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian health care, communications, families, Health is more than healthcare, healthcare, public healthcare
Over a year ago, I was invited to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day on Parliament Hill. It was attended by a dozen or more Senators from both major parties, political staffers and invited guests mostly from an assortment of autism non-profit organizations. I expected a somewhat predictable ‘feel good’ event about how far we’ve come and how far we have still to go. But an hour later there weren’t many dry eyes in the chamber.
By Kathleen O’Grady Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian health care, communications, Health is more than healthcare, health journal, health journalist, healthcare, International health systems, journalism, public healthcare
One morning, the media headline pronounces Canada’s health system should model that found in the Netherlands; the next week, we should follow Germany’s example, and yet another says Australia is leading the pack. Then there are the inevitable comparisons to the U.S. health system.
By Vivian Tam with Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones Affordable care cost act, Canada healthcare system, Canadian healthcare system, cost of drugs, Health is more than healthcare, poverty, public policies
I began medical school optimistic about what becoming a physician meant I could do for my future patients. Naively, I presumed my career would involve treating patients’ illnesses so they could return to lead full and fulfilling lives.
By Kathleen O’Grady autism, Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian health care, communications, families, Health is more than healthcare, healthcare, public healthcare
Canadian governments have done little to address the crisis faced by autism families across the country. This sentiment was true in 2007 when it was put forward in the cross-party Senate report on the state of funding for the treatment of autism in Canada, aptly titled, Pay Now or Pay Later. And until recently, this sentiment could be used to sum up the role of the federal government which has largely left the crisis up to provincial ministries to manage.
By Kathleen O’Grady and Noralou Roos Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian health care, communications, ebook, Health is more than healthcare, Health policy, Health policy journalism, healthcare, social media
For the last thirty years or so, Canadians have repeatedly flagged healthcare as the most important national concern and the issue they want their political leaders to prioritize. Surveys and studies and polls and panels — there have been plenty — all come up with the same finding: Canadians care about healthcare.
By Kathleen O’Grady and Anne Jovanovic autism, Canada’s healthcare system, Canadian health care, communications, families, Health is more than healthcare, healthcare, public healthcare
Every week a new study on autism seems to surface, and too often, there are errors or critical omissions in some of the media coverage on the topic.
By Jennifer Zelmer Digital health, E-visits, Electronic health record, Email, Health is more than healthcare, informatisation des services en matière de santé, MyChart, MyChart system, Online appointments, Online health, Prescription renewals online, Renouvellement des ordonnances en ligne
Eight in ten Canadian adults want online access to their own health information yet fewer than one in 10 currently have it, so says a new study published in Healthcare Papers.
By Ryan Meili Cape Breton Post, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Health is more than healthcare, social policies, Vancouver Province
In a recent media article, Nova Scotia’s Health Minister, Leo Glavine, floated the idea that people should have to demonstrate healthy lifestyles before accessing our health care system, much like a bank assesses a customer for a loan.