Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
« Older Entries | Newer Entries »
Free prescriptions for many children and young adults in Ontario set to end in March
Under the new plan, children and young adults will continue to get free prescriptions if they or their parents do not have private health insurance coverage. Otherwise, private insurance plans become the “first payer” for prescription medicines… At issue is how pharmacists will be able to verify whether customers under 25 have private coverage, or deductibles or co-payments… At drug stores, pharmacists will ask customers if they have insurance and check their coverage online.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical, youth
Posted in Health Policy Context | No Comments »
Doctors should follow patients beyond the hospital
As trainees, we learn to manage patients on medical wards and in office clinics. We become proficient at recognizing their maladies and manipulating their biology: our exams and training prepare us well for this. But we are less prepared to understand how community services — arguably the crucible of modern health care — will pick up where we have left off… Yet, most physicians get little to no exposure to rehabilitation institutions, long-term care facilities and nursing homes.
Tags: Health, mental Health, standard of living
Posted in Health Delivery System | No Comments »
In medicine, ‘social prescribing’ is catching on despite lack of evidence
In Ontario, the Alliance for Healthier Communities, a network of community health centres, recently launched a program to similarly measure the use and efficacy of the social prescribing strategy. “People can be their own best resource for their health and wellbeing, when they’re connected to each other and the right services… Social prescribing changes our lens from seeing individuals as patients with conditions, to understanding them as people with gifts.”
Tags: Health, mental Health, participation
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
How we can beat HIV in Canada
… In total, more than 23,000 Canadians are falling through the cracks in our response to HIV… There is a critical shortage of testing options available in Canada to reach those who are undiagnosed. There is uneven coverage and access to anti-retroviral medications for prevention and treatment of HIV. Finally, unlike other countries, Canada lacks political commitment to implement the necessary scale-up and access to testing and medications.
Tags: Health, ideology, pharmaceutical, standard of living
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
Drugs Other Than Cannabis Are Too Hazardous to Legalize
We need to spend at least a decade studying the impact of cannabis legalization on public health and society before considering additional action. Then, if the results from these studies give us reason to move forward, it would be crucial to examine… the potential harms each drug can cause to individuals, to those around them and to society. We’d need to consider the addiction potential of each drug, the acute effects of each drug and its chronic, long-term effects. We’d have to consider how likely people are to overdose from the drug.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
Canada Should Legalize All Recreational Drugs
We’ve spent billions of dollars to prosecute people for the possession of small amounts of drugs. 8 We’re doing our whole country a disservice. We’re locking away people’s talents and potential because we criminalize drug use.
Consider a society in which all drugs are legal; Under these conditions, the black market for drugs – and much of the associated violence, social harm and health risks – could be virtually eliminated… problematic use would actually decline, as would the negative consequences associated with criminalization.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
Let’s not forget that our medicare system was also born of war
Canada alone operated 10 large hospitals in England and France to tend to its wounded, along with 10 stationary hospitals and four casualty clearing stations. Back home, the federal government also took control of 11 hospitals for the care of returning soldiers, and built the first state-run hospital… It also fuelled political debates about the need for a “national sickness plan,” to extend public health insurance beyond veterans.
Tags: Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, standard of living
Posted in Health History | No Comments »
On safe injection sites, why can’t conservatives just let people not die?
Once conservatives get past the ideological hurdle of harm reduction, they ought to be impressed by its simplicity: Two volunteers in a tent with a bunch of naloxone kits and $200 in supplies from any pharmacy can provide the most basic service, which is ensuring that people do not die
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical, standard of living
Posted in Health Debates | No Comments »
Ontario should stop stalling on making payments to doctors public
… it is so alarming that months after taking office the Ford government has yet to enact regulations that would bring into force the Health Sector Transparency Act passed by the previous Liberal government. It should quit stalling. The legislation would compel drug companies and those that manufacture medical devices to publicly report cash payments, free dinners, trips and other benefits they dole out to doctors, dentists and pharmacists.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, privatization
Posted in Health Policy Context | No Comments »
How do we balance rights in cases of medically assisted dying?
Catholic health-care facilities must recognize the vulnerabilities and full health-care needs of its diverse patient population. That means providing complete, compassionate and dignified end-of-life care, including MAID, especially when dealing with patients grappling with intolerable circumstances and imminent mortality.
Tags: ideology, rights, standard of living
Posted in Health Policy Context | No Comments »
Recent Comments