Most popular health policy content on EvidenceNetwork.ca, 2011-2015

Since 2011, we’ve published well over 500 original op-eds, podcasts, videos and backgrounders on controversial and timely health policy issues in Canada and had them published widely in every major media outlet across the country.  Once our content runs in the mainstream press, we publish them on our website, EvidenceNetwork.ca, with a Creative Commons license for easy reprinting and sharing.

So what’s been most popular?

Below find the Top 40 original articles on health policy on our site from 2011-2015 in English and French.  Bonne lecture !

1. Pourquoi les personnes âgées sont importantes et comment elles contribuent à nos vies quotidiennes
   by Verena Menec
   
2. Why seniors matter — and how they contribute to our everyday lives
   by Verena Menec
   
3. Backgrounder: Obesity trends in Canada
   by Banaz Al-khalidi
4. Certainty of punishment is best crime deterrent
   by Rick Linden
   
5. Why did Manitoba students perform so poorly on the latest national school report?
   by Marni Brownell and Nathan Nickel
6. Beware drug store dispensing fees
   by Noralou Roos
   
7. Download our free eBook! Canadian Health Policy in the News: Why Evidence Matters
   by Noralou Roos, Sharon Manson Singer, Kathleen O’Grady, Shannon Turczak, and Camilla Tapp
   
8. It’s time to include dental health in the healthcare system
   by Paul Allison
9. How the federal government plans to end homelessness
   by Vicky Stergiopoulos and Sam Tsemberis
10. Download our free eBook! Making Evidence Matter in Canadian Health Policy
    by Noralou Roos, Kathleen O’Grady, Shannon Turczak, Camilla Tapp and Lindsay Jolivet
    
11. Canada Health Transfer changes: The devil is in the details
    by Livio Di Matteo
    
12. Why Canada should care about the Shouldice Hospital deal
    by Irfan Dhalla
    
13. Why Canada shouldn’t compete with the U.S. for the worst performing health system in the developed world
    by Colleen Flood
    
14. Why we never seem to have enough hospital beds in Canada
    by Jason Sutherland and Trafford Crump
15. Five things every Canadian should know about obesity
    by Carolyn Shimmin
    
16. Le temps est-il venu d’autoriser le suicide assisté?
    by Harvey Max Chochinov and Balfour M. Mount
17. Backgrounder: The price of prescription drugs in Canada
    Prepared by the Science Media Centre of Canada with resources from Evidencenetwork.ca
18. Backgrounder: Canada’s prescription opioid crisis
    by Ann Silversides
    
19. The real costs of long-term care for Canada
    by Michel Grignon and Nicole F. Bernier
    
20. We can sustain our health care system — here’s how
    by Neena Chappell and Marcus Hollander
    
21. Backgrounder: Canada’s aging population and the need for changes in health care delivery
    by Ann Silversides
    
22. How Canada fails people with mental illnesses
    by Paul Kurdyak and Sanjeev Sockalingam
23. Download our new free eBook! Navigating the Evidence: Communicating Canadian Health Policy in the Media
    by Noralou Roos, Kathleen O’Grady, Shannon Turczak, Camilla Tapp and Lindsay Jolivet
    
24. La malbouffe ne fait pas qu’arrondir vos hanches, elle les gruge
    by Cy Frank and Ron Zernicke
25. Playing violin for your health
    by Arya Sharma
26. Pension plans: Why all the fuss?
    by Robert Brown
    
27. Backgrounder: Mental illness and addictions in Canada
    by Victoria Jeffries
28. How Canada artificially inflates the cost of prescription drugs to the tune of $2-billion
    by Marc-André Gagnon
    
29. How to save $690 and prevent unnecessary worry
    by Alan Cassels
    
30. What I learned as a medical student working with low-income families in Toronto
    by Lita Cameron and Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones
    
31. Backgrounder: The Dutch health care system
    by Lee Tunstall
    
32. Why we all discriminate — even our doctors
    by Stephen Hwang
    
33. Who’s afraid of universal pharmacare?
    by Marc-André Gagnon
    
34. Comparing U.S., Canadian health care systems
    by Trudy Lieberman
    
35. Time for Canada to improve our health care performance
    by Colleen Flood
    
36. Why Canadian hospitals outperform U.S. hospitals
    by Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein
37. Five things most people get wrong about Canada’s healthcare system
    by Kathleen O’Grady and Noralou Roos
    
38. Why other provinces may follow Ontario’s lead in reducing physician fees
    by Mark Stabile
    
39. Sure fire tricks to get the most out of your vitamin supplements
    by Mike Allan and James McCormack
    
40. Prescription drug addiction is a major public health crisis
    by Irfan Dhalla and David Juurlink

Nanci Armstrong is the Research Support at EvidenceNetwork.ca.  Kathleen O’Grady is the Managing Editor at EvidenceNetwork.ca and a Research Associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University.