Lifting the veil off the role of women in health care
There’s a significant lack of gender parity in health leadership positions. Pay equity and workplace safety must also be addressed (FREE)
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Tag: Health care reform
How to provide consistent health care to all Canadians
We all must have access to high-quality health care. Unjustifiable variations are still too common across the country
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When the doctor says sorry
It’s been a dozen years since health-care apology laws came to Canada. Do they work? FREE)
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When a new mom has disturbing thoughts about hurting her baby
Postpartum OCD is frequently misdiagnosed and misunderstood – but it is treatable, help is available (FREE)
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Hiring consultants to fix health-care systems doesn’t work
Too often, politicians wrongly assume that the leaders of health organizations are unwilling and unable to bring about bold reforms
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How to put Canadian health-care innovation into practice
It’s no easy feat in the often-intractable and rigid Canadian health system, but the payoff can be immense for patients and care providers (FREE)
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Health-care is stuck in a decades-old communication model
Patients want to book appointments online, track the status of their referrals and access their records. That all requires political leadership (FREE)
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Include people living with frailty in health-care decision-making
Older Canadians say their top priorities are better co-ordinated care systems and more community and home-based supports (FREE)
Read MoreCanada’s health-care wait times hit new record high
Although we know that universal systems elsewhere deliver more timely access at similar or lower costs, we still pursue wrong-headed policies (FREE)
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Monitoring the effectiveness of our prescription medications
It’s time we stepped up our system of drug surveillance to track why drugs are prescribed and their outcomes (FREE)
Read MoreCanada’s health-care system fails to account for senior migration
Migrating seniors pay most of their lifetime taxes in one province and then consume most of their health care in another (FREE)
Read More‘What gets measured gets done’
We lack critical information on the diverse and often unmet needs of Canadian children with disabilities, as well as the out-of-pocket costs paid by families (FREE)
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