Reading Time: 3 minutes As well as providing patients with critical medications when they need them, an essential medicines list helps patients get the right medicine
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Defusing the ticking time bomb of postpartum depression
Reading Time: 4 minutes The biggest predictors of postpartum depression are prenatal depression and a history of depression before conception
One in six Ontarians left behind in health-care reforms
Reading Time: 3 minutes Urban poor and new immigrants are less likely to be part of a family health group – and less likely to get high-quality care
Move health research out of the academy and into the community
Reading Time: 4 minutes Health changes require greater input by people trained to create a difference – and that’s not happening in Canada
Facing some unpleasant truths about opioids
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite the best of intentions, doctors flood homes with opioids purer and stronger than heroin, destroying countless lives in the process
Tackling relationship between climate change and health
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians innately understand how their health is linked with environmental issues
Why Canada needs a national housing strategy now
Reading Time: 3 minutes By providing secure, safe housing, we are also addressing persistent health problems
Canada facing an epidemic of overdiagnosis and overtreatment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Patients need to be empowered to ask about the risks caused by some tests and treatments, and whether they are really necessary
Guaranteed sick time good policy and smart business
Reading Time: 3 minutes People working despite being sick has been estimated to cost Canadian businesses $15 to $25 billion per year
Five things you should know about food insecurity in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Over four million Canadians, including 1.15 million children, will experience some level of food insecurity this year