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Mental health is health care’s orphan
Saturday, February 2nd, 2019
The recent Health Accord between Canada and the provinces will invest $5-billion in mental-health services over 10 years, but spending will still be short of the annualized $3.1-billion investment that is required to reach the Mental Health Commission target of 9 per cent of health spending.
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Mental health services for everyone
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Jun 26 2011
The focus on children and youth in the first three years of the government’s 10-year mental health strategy will make a difference. But action is also required now on mental health services for adults and seniors. If one in three people got treatment for cancer, no government or health minister would be able to justify such poor performance. This is the situation for mental health care in Ontario and Canada. Countries like the U.K., New Zealand and Sweden spend at least 10 per cent of their health budgets on mental health, while Ontario spends 5.8 per cent.
Tags: budget, ideology, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Mental health needs long-term strategy
Friday, October 15th, 2010
Oct 15 2010
The DeBassige inquest simply confirms what the Select Committee of the Ontario Legislature has found — there is no real mental health system to help the 20 per cent of Ontarians living with mental illness and addiction problems. Only three in 10 people living with mental health and addiction problems get any help at all. Ontario and Canada rank lowest of OECD countries in terms of the amount they spend on mental health services.
Tags: disabilities, mental Health, standard of living
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Next step is funding for mental health
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Aug 29 2010
While Ontario’s Liberal government increased health funding by $14.5 billion since coming to office, it only added $220 million to mental health spending during the same period even though mental health and addictions problems affect 20 per cent of the population… Today in Toronto there are 2,000 people on the wait list for supportive housing. Without creating additional service capacity for supportive housing, this will not change. Other jurisdictions have had to increase the mental health share of health spending to get change and improve services.
Tags: Health, homelessness, mental Health
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Keeping poverty on the agenda [Mental Health]
Monday, April 5th, 2010
Apr 05 2010
Mental health spending has been declining as a proportion of health spending… A number of OECD jurisdictions allocate 10 per cent of health spending to mental health. Ontario spends about half that amount. The new policy will need to set a similar goal if services and access are going to improve.
Tags: mental Health, poverty
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