Reading Time: 4 minutes In Canada, men account for three out of every four suicides – with seven men dying by suicide every day – but our support programs fall short
Tag: University of British Columbia
Bill C-75 reforms too little, too late to respond to domestic violence
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada needs a national agency to review all domestic homicides and create an integrated domestic violence safety system
The diet you’re on is likely a pretty good one
Reading Time: 4 minutes As long as you don’t eat carbohydrates, fats and protein to extreme levels, you should be just fine
NAFTA renegotiations threaten Canada’s steps toward pharmacare
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada must both defend the existing public health-care system as well protect its aspirations to creating a better one
Why Canada needs universal pharmacare and how to make it happen
Reading Time: 3 minutes Prescription drug coverage for all would save lives, save billions of dollars, help businesses – and make our incomplete health system whole
Don’t let seniors’ care in Canada become a private equity money maker
Reading Time: 4 minutes The pressure to make a profit in seniors homes often leads to cost-cutting measures such as reduced staffing that undermine the quality of care
Opioid use crisis shows urgent need for pain treatment options
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our response to the crisis must be broadened to address the aspects of our health-care system that contribute to the increasing demand for opioids
British Columbia’s failed primary care experiment
Reading Time: 4 minutes Paying doctors more did not improve primary care – and cost the province hundreds of millions of dollars
Health Minister must reinstate funding for Cochrane Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Funding was terminated for Cochrane Canada, part of the key global health care resource Cochrane Collaboration, in September
BC’s billion dollar healthcare boondoggle
Reading Time: 4 minutes The province Increased incentives payments to doctors to try to improve patients’ access to care. It didn’t work.