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Monday, February 3rd, 2014
In some well-off Western countries, you’re likelier to get cancer. In less-developed countries, cancer is likelier to kill you… Canada… plac(ed) 12th in cancer incidence, with about 295 new cases for every 100,000 people and 64th in mortality, with about 103 deaths per 100,000… Lung cancer remains the most common – and deadliest – cancer in the world… Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women… The pattern of new breast cancer diagnoses and deaths in 2012 shows again that, when it comes to cancer, geography is destiny.
Tags: Health, poverty, standard of living, women
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Jun. 28, 2011
Douglas’s achievement in introducing medicare in Saskatchewan represented a deep conceptual shift that radically altered the provision of health care in Canada. He convinced a nation that in a civilized society, health care should be considered essential to individual and social well-being, and viewed both as a public right and a collective obligation. However, the events surrounding the birth of universal health insurance in Canada were full of irony on several levels
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
November 22, 2010
He set an example of fiscal restraint (and, ironically, of limited government) that no other Canadian premier approached in the 20th century. In 17 years as premier, he produced 17 balanced budgets. From this perspective, he governed in a uniquely rational, disciplined and principled way… By reducing the debt, and thereby reducing interest costs, he was able to spend more on public services – without raising taxes.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology
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Saturday, August 14th, 2010
August 13, 2010
“We realized something needed to be done about mental illness,” he says. “In report after report on the state of the health-care system, it was barely mentioned.” The committee published a series of reports culminating with its final report in 2006, entitled Out of the Shadows At Last, which recommended the formation of an arms-length commission that would deal with the issue of mental illness “in a way that would create some kind of national focal point.”
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Jun. 16, 2010
While medical care has improved dramatically, the vast majority of those gains are due to pretty simple public health measures… The reality is that the economic and social conditions in which we live – income, housing, education, physical environment and support networks – ultimately have more impact on our health than genetics or lifestyle choices.
Tags: Health, Indigenous, standard of living
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