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Friday, February 11th, 2011
February 10, 2011
… higher income not only is associated with greater social status but a higher degree of control over one’s life and the ability to participate more fully in society… The psychological experience of income inequality affects not only our mental health but our physical health, as well… Increased stress is the most widely described explanation for higher rates of mental disorder within lower income groups. Not only do these groups have more stresses such as insecurity in income, housing and food insecurity, and exposure to violence and so on, but they also have fewer resources to deal with these challenges.
Tags: Health, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Jan. 12, 2011
This week, the Irish Times newspaper published a large report on Canada’s growing healthcare crisis. In a piece entitled “Another health system coming apart at the seams,” the Times describes the “bursting” waiting room at Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital… Apart from North Korea, Canada is the only country that prohibits health-care services covered by its public system to be also provided by the private market.
Tags: Health, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
November 24, 2010
Australia not only allows private insurance, it encourages a private system for doctors and hospital care, alongside the comprehensive public one…. Australia spends about 1.5 per cent less of its national income on health care than Canada. As in Canada, costs are rising about 6 per cent annually… the Australian population, it would appear… is generally content with their system… What Canadians would see as the inequities of such a system – “two-tier medicine” – Australians seem to accept as a reasonable compromise between efficiency and equity.
Tags: budget, Health, pharmaceutical, privatization
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Friday, November 19th, 2010
Nov. 18, 2010
Prof. Bliss… did not have a detailed plan of how to do away with universality. But he suggested it could be achieved through requiring wealthier users to pay for some of their care out of pocket, making health services a taxable benefit for higher-income people, or simply having a separate health tax that exacted more of the revenue from those in the top brackets… But Prof. Bliss’s call to end universality — the notion that all Canadians have equal access to a government service regardless of income — fell flat with some health-policy experts…
Tags: budget, Health, standard of living, tax
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Canada has fewer curative care beds per capita than most OECD countries (although we have more than the usually well-regarded Swedes and Finns)… the OECD’s “Quality of Care” chapter… looks at 11 indicators, focusing on factors like avoidable deaths in hospital and delivery of preventive measures. Canada scores better than the OECD average on eight of the 11 indicators. On two indicators, the Canadian outcome is mixed. On just one, Canada scores worse than the OECD average.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Nov. 11, 2010
At only 26 years old, the Canada Health Act is ailing. The act guarantees universal health care, setting out key principles of access and affordability – one of which suffers from a serious case of neglect.
Under the portability requirement, every Canadian is entitled to full medical coverage, no matter where he or she lives, and provincial health insurance plans are supposed to be good anywhere in the country. But that tenet is showing cracks at the Quebec-Ontario boundary. Quebec patients are turned away or pay out-of-pocket for medical services outside their home province, essentially denied portability.
Tags: budget, Health, rights
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Friday, November 5th, 2010
Nov 05 2010
…setting aside partisanship, personal disappointment and intergovernmental turf wars, medicare does need a decennial checkup… Romanow’s prescription — a substantial investment of public funds to buy “transformative change” — is no longer feasible… With a weak economy and an unstable Parliament, the timing is not ideal for a medicare review… But pouring cash into the health-care system has never brought lasting reform. It is true that handing medicare to a panel of experts for examination would be expedient for Harper. But it would also be good — at least better than the alternatives…
Tags: budget, featured, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Sep. 21, 2010
… the company’s new mental health program will focus its investments in four areas: – combating stigma; – bolstering community care and access; – improving the workplace for those suffering from mental illness; – investing in brain research. Mr. Cope recited a litany of statistics, including the fact that one in five Canadians will suffer from a mental illness during their lifetime and that fewer that one-third of sufferers get prompt treatment.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
6 September 2010
The most deprived in Northern Ireland are twice as likely to die from heart disease as the most affluent, it was revealed. Poor diet, smoking and lack of exercise were all behind the increased death toll, according to a new plan from the Belfast Health Trust… inequality imposed its own strains on top of poor lifestyles. “If you are less well off than someone else and live in a very unequal society it does impact on you psychologically and it does have a physical effect including on your health in terms of heart disease or cancer,”…
Tags: Health, poverty, standard of living
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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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