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Flattening Ontario’s mental-health curve
Monday, July 25th, 2022
A navigator is someone who guides a patient through the system. The system is incredibly complex and not intuitive. There are also cultural barriers, language barriers; you might be dealing with ableism. It might just mean connecting them to the right professionals in the community to keep them out of hospital. Mental health and substance issues are best handled in the community, with supports. The hospitals are not the best place for this kind of care.
Tags: Health, mental Health
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Health Coalition Chairperson to seek accountability for health dollars at premiers’ meeting
Sunday, July 10th, 2022
The Canadian Health Coalition is in favour of increased federal funding to provinces, but not without strings attached to ensure the funding is used for health care in an accountable manner and supports our public health care system… Budget 2022 stated the federal government wants to ensure that any additional federal funding will improve Canada’s health care system.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, standard of living
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How do we ‘fix’ Canadian health care? Not by forcing patients to pay
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
While we undoubtedly need to invest more public funds in our health care system, we need to do it transparently and strategically… Those looking to hand our health care system to corporate investors see a lucrative opportunity in private pay health care. It’s a seemingly simple and neat solution — but it’s wrong. If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that we need our publicly funded health care system to be there for all of us.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, participation, privatization
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‘Fixing’ emergency department wait times starts with investing in a strong primary care system
Friday, June 24th, 2022
Access to timely health care is predicated on a robust primary care system that is adequately staffed and supported. As a provider who has experienced the pressures faced by both the primary and acute care settings, it is clear that investing in team-based primary care and prioritizing access to family physicians is a necessary priority to address the crisis in our emergency departments.
Tags: featured, Health, mental Health
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On a mission to save seniors from nursing home horrors
Friday, June 17th, 2022
… there “is no magic bullet” or “a one-size-fits-all solution,” she sees the potential benefits of PSW-owned co-ops. “This is one among multiple solutions we’ll be able to put in place,” she says. “I’m a fan of aging in place, providing options for seniors to avoid going into long-term care, but let’s not forget that it is still required. At some point, people will need long-term care facilities. But we need to provide other options to delay the time where they have to go into an LTC.”
Tags: Health, housing, mental Health, Seniors, standard of living
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New website aims to improve access to counselling services
Friday, June 17th, 2022
Family Service Ontario, with the help of Caredove, an Orillia-based software company, has launched the Ontario Counselling Finder website using Caredove’s WebBuilder, where members of the public can enter their home address to find the nearest Family Service Ontario member agency. Member agencies can optionally allow the public to request an intake appointment through the secure e-referral platform… “Our hope is to increase awareness that these services are available, and to reduce the barriers in accessing them,”
Tags: jurisdiction, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation
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B.C. and Ottawa are showing leadership in fighting the scourge of drug overdoses
Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
The exemption, which is authorized by the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, will decriminalize possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and ecstasy. Toronto has applied for a similar exemption, and the feds ought to approve it now… there’s abundant evidence that drug prohibition has little effect on how many people use drugs but plays a significant role in making an already risky activity even riskier.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, pharmaceutical
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Feds rightly cautious about provincial demands for unconditional health funding
Wednesday, June 1st, 2022
“Trudeau is correct to avoid what may amount to cutting a blank cheque to provinces if he cannot ensure that the money will deliver improvements to existing public health care and expanding public health care to much needed long-term care and universal pharmacare.” … More than eight out of every ten dollars provided in Canada to fight COVID-19 and support Canadians has been provided by the federal government…
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction
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Ontario needs a government that will legislate health, not poverty
Sunday, May 29th, 2022
Low social assistance rates are not just legislated poverty — they are legislated destitution, and legislated poor health. Research has shown poor health is a direct consequence of living in poverty. These policy choices do not save us money — in fact, they provide people like us — legal aid lawyers and doctors — with a steady stream of business, paid for out of other pockets of the public purse. This election, none of the three major parties are offering enough to people living in deep poverty.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario election gives voters the chance to choose people over profits in long-term care
Friday, May 27th, 2022
If… government replicates past decisions, more than 65,000 Ontarians a year will live in a for-profit facility — many run by corporations focused on their real estate investments — in the next decade. If we follow a different path, these subsidies could fund operators that are primarily care organizations and where real estate holdings support the care, not the other way around.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, Health, housing, ideology, privatization, Seniors, standard of living
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