(Vancouver) An Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University is calling on the provincial government to re-think its approach to mental health care. “In recent years, we’ve seen cuts to a host of social services and changes to mental health care,” says Marina Morrow. “We need a strategy that recognizes the links between poverty and mental illness, and provides a range of community-based income, housing and employment supports.”
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This study highlights key reforms governments must make to reduce health disparities and shows that reform and investment in public health care will deliver equity for the best price. The report examines trends in health care reform, specifically in the areas of governance, finance and coverage, human resources and information. It finds that:
OTTAWA—The federal and provincial governments must work together to reduce disparities in our health care system, says a new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.The study, by CCPA Research Associate Armine Yalnizyan, highlights key reforms governments must make to reduce health disparities and shows that reform and investment in public health care will deliver equity for the best price.
March 29, 2006 was the second anniversary of the passage into law of Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) Act, an Act marking the culmination of years of hard work by many thoughtful Canadians of diverse perspectives.
(Vancouver) Reduced access to publicly-funded home support means frail seniors and people with disabilities are being left without the basic supports needed to monitor their health and postpone, or even avoid, the need for residential or hospital care.
This is the central finding of a new Economic Security Project study, published today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, called “From Support to Isolation: The High Cost of BC’s Declining Home Support Services.” The BC Ministry of health claims that home support has been enhanced since 2001, yet the study finds that:
Mending Medicare appeared as a special 24-page supplement in the May 2006 issue of The CCPA Monitor, the CCPA's monthly research magazine. The Monitor is sent free to all CCPA members. To find out more about how you can join the CCPA and receive this great resource at your home, visit the membership area.
I recently woke up at three in the morning with the chilling words “collateral damage” ringing in my cranium.
This is standard-issue military techno-speak, a term you’d find in the same bunker as “friendly fire” or “soft targets.” It refers to those unfortunate souls who happened to get killed or maimed, not by something they did, but because they happened to live close to something someone thought was a good target.
Mending Medicare appeared as a special 24-page supplement in the May 2006 issue of The CCPA Monitor, the CCPA's monthly research magazine. The Monitor is sent free to all CCPA members. To find out more about how you can join the CCPA and receive this great resource at your home, visit the membership area.