Posts Tagged ‘mental Health’
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Don’t link mental illness with violent crime
We concluded, as have others before us, that public fears of the mentally ill greatly exceed the actual risk of violence posed by such persons. A small number of people may pose an increased risk to others, but this risk is a result of acute symptoms that can respond to treatment. Policies of social inclusion, stigma reduction and providing people with care are the most important steps to advance the well-being of individuals with mental illness; this may facilitate an even lower risk of violence to others.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, featured, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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It’s time for Canada to measure up on kids with disabilities
“What gets measured gets done.” Better information on the nature and needs of children and youth with disability is essential for policymakers to predict and plan for improved provision of efficient, equitable and inclusive services and supports. Better data will also allow for a deeper understanding of the education and employment requirements, how these influence important outcomes such as income, as well as challenges in accessing services for those with disability.
Tags: child care, disabilities, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Health-care spending projected to jump nearly 4% this year, report finds
The CIHI report states that… aging is only a “modest driver” of increasing health-care costs, estimated at nearly 1 per cent annually… among the three largest spending categories – hospitals, drugs and physicians, which together account for more than 60 per cent of the overall expenditure – pharmaceutical costs continue to increase at the fastest pace. This has been true since 2015, due partly to the increased use of high-cost patented drugs.
Tags: budget, Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Ontario must make bail reform meaningful
If you own a house, have a job, and have family or friends who can pledge a sizable sum of money and act as supervisors, you are likely to soon be on your way home… immigrants, the mentally ill, racialized groups, and the poor stand the least chance of being released on bail. Despite remaining wholly innocent under the law, they lose their freedom for months or years as the criminal process plays out.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, poverty, rights
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Hallway medicine: Do we really need more hospital beds?
In Ontario alone, there are almost 4,000 “alternate level of care” (ALC) patients (7,500 Canada-wide), an Orwellian euphemism used to describe people who have been discharged but continue to live in hospitals because they have nowhere else to go, for lack of long-term-care beds and home-care spots. Surely before we start reopening dilapidated old hospitals, we should start by getting ALC patients into more appropriate care.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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It’s time for a data-driven approach to health care
… the Big Three – hospitals, physicians and drugs – gobble up more than 60 per cent of total spending, and they have since we started compiling national health data in Canada in 1975. That is a sharp reminder that, despite all the talk about the importance of community care and the need for care to be delivered by multidisciplinary teams, we have a hospital-centric, physician-driven health system.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Reopening old hospitals is the wrong remedy
Was this an inevitable failure? No. Was the direction of expanding community care wrong? No. More care at home and in the community, was, and still is, the right direction. This failure is overwhelmingly a failure of delivery. At almost every point the political will was too weak, the sense of urgency almost completely lacking and the clarity of leadership muffled in rhetoric and lost in endless process.
Tags: disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Apology to LGBTQ community first step toward healing
The record of how LGBTQ2 Canadians were treated by their own government, and the human pain and cost that resulted because of that treatment, is egregious… “People were watched, followed, interrogated and purged from their jobs” … Lives were lost to suicide… “All queer Canadians deserve truth and reconciliation for the historical misuses of state power that eroded their human dignity.”
Tags: featured, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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Respite centres are welcome, but just stop-gap measure for homeless
Ottawa provides no funding for the city’s emergency shelter system, and the province’s contribution is fixed, no matter the increase in those in need of a bed. And neither senior government is kicking in enough money to repair the subsidized housing that currently exists, never mind building more… the cost of having 5,253 people on Toronto streets added up to $420,000 a night… putting the homeless into social housing would be just $34,000 a night.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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