4 天之前 · "Togethering" is the term for how we live out our vision of how we care for our families together. "Family" can mean the traditional nuclear family across generations, modern-day chosen families, friends and neighbours.

2024年7月11日 · Long-term care reform during COVID-19. Ontario's long-term care system is in need of reform. Over the last few months, our contributors have flagged major issues with the current models of care and highlighted the disastrous consequences to residents during …

3 天之前 · Editor’s note: Watch for Patient Perspectives, a column dealing with health care from the user’s point of view that will appear regularly in Healthy Debate. When biotech giant Roche announced it was looking for a Chief Patient Experience Officer (CPXO) – someone with lived experience – the ...

3 天之前 · It’s not always easy to see how societal factors affect our health. In fact, when we experience illness, we sometimes blame ourselves or attribute our condition to bad luck. However, how we navigate social determinants of health (SDOH), such as education and housing, can ultimately influence how ...

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2025年1月13日 · Ontario’s health-care system is crumbling. For more than 70 years, Canadians have lauded the Canada Health Act (CHA) as a beacon of universal care, yet it’s woefully outdated in the face of modern challenges. Chronic diseases are surging, hospitals are buckling under demand, and rural areas are ...

2025年1月22日 · The federal government’s long-awaited Interpretation Letter of the Canada Health Act (CHA), released earlier this month, missed a significant opportunity to modernize medicare. Passed in 1984, the CHA provides the legislative framework for the universal aspects of our health-care system. Though it ...

2025年1月7日 · In Canada, access to Paxlovid, a treatment for mild to moderate COVID-19 infection, has become increasingly challenging, with dwindling stock, significant shortages and concerns about affordability since the end of the federal program last April. Critics say these barriers to access are driven by ...

2024年11月4日 · Emergency department waits are continuing to rise, access to primary care is becoming increasingly desperate, surgical backlogs persist, adult and pediatric mental health access remains elusive for many patients – all while patients’ medical and social needs are becoming increasingly complex.

2023年9月17日 · Canadians are deeply concerned that the health care system is no longer meeting their needs. With the system under significant strain – patients struggling to access care, intermittent emergency department closures, growing surgical backlogs – there have been increasing calls to re-examine how we fund and deliver health-care services.