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Addressing the fundamental causes of population health… The …

WEBOne of the most persistent population health patterns in history is that those who are better resourced in terms of income, education, social capital or whatever domain, have better outcomes than those who have less. It does not matter what place, historical time period, or context, generally, the…

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The wellness-to-white-supremacy pipeline is alive and well

WEBA 2021 McKinsey & Company survey estimated the value of the global wellness market at more than US$1.5 trillion, while the Global Wellness Institute suggests it’s likely much higher: US$4.5 trillion. The market’s value is also likely to continue growing, according to a recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce report, which quotes Wendy …

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Three key health policy movements are aligning The Monitor

WEBGet Well Canada is asking Canadians and their governments to think more broadly about the ingredients for good health. Health is about more than the medical care we receive in clinics and hospitals. Instead, the evidence tells us that the factors most critical for shaping health are the economic, social and environmental conditions in …

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Fighting Mis/Disinformation through the Public School System

WEBInstitutional distrust refers to an individual or group’s lack of confidence in public institutions and systems in representing and delivering on their needs and priorities. Early in the pandemic, public health guidelines across Canada focused heavily on social distancing, masking, and staying at home to avoid COVID-19 transmission.

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The social solution to Canada’s health care problem

WEBGet Well Canada is a project led by Generation Squeeze as part of a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) grant—whose work is the themed focus of this edition of the Monitor. The groups behind Get Well Canada (including the CCPA, via its Think Upstream project) are proposing that governments report and monitor the social-to …

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Lessons from COVID-19: We are only as strong as our… The …

WEBIt’s a reminder that the economy is only as strong as the health of our communities. And as Italy completely shuts down, COVID-19 is teaching us that we are only as strong as our weakest link in the global public health chain. That’s why investments in public health—disease prevention, health promotion and protection—are so critical.

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Social and medical spending: Flip sides of the same coin

WEBMany countries face the challenge of rising medical care costs, stretching government budgets and creating pressures on other spending priorities. These growing medical costs might be considered reasonable if more medical spending was the best way to improve health outcomes. But this is not the…

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Extending EI sickness benefits a big step in the right

WEBThe federal government’s commitment to extend employment insurance (EI) sickness benefits from 15 weeks to 26 weeks is a welcome and overdue expansion of the Canadian social safety net. In our 2018 report On the Mend, we recommended doubling the available benefits from 15 to 30 weeks, but 26 weeks is still a dramatic improvement …

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AFB 2024: Affordable housing and homelessness The Monitor

WEBBuilding on the British Columbia government’s new $500 million Rental Protection Fund for non-profit housing providers to purchase existing rental buildings, this AFB will create a $20 billion Housing Acquisition Fund to support this goal of maintaining the supply of affordable housing for low- and modest-income households over time.

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Ontario health spending will be too low if the 2022… The Monitor

WEBFor every $1.00 the 2022 budget plans to spend on health care program spending (i.e., care) over the period 2022-23 to 2024-25, the government plans to spend $1.80 on health capital (construction). To truly improve access to care, Ontario needs to rebuild the health care workforce. The first step in that process is repealing Bill 124.

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The Monitor No strings attached

WEBThe federal government only attached strings to 58 per cent of the new money. That means 58 per cent of that money actually has to be spent on health care—the rest can be spent on whatever the provinces want. While some federal deals require the provinces and territories to match funding—that is frequently the case with federal

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Arman Hamidian The Monitor

WEBCanada needs to move from individual choice approach to whole-of-society approach. Half of our health and well-being is based on social determinants of health. Arman Hamidian is a consultant at Santis Health, a public affairs, strategic advisory, public policy, marketing and communication consultancy that is….

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The biggest source of waste in Canadian health care

WEBFirst, Canada already leaves more of our health care to the private sector than most industrialized countries. And second, the private, for-profit sector is the single biggest source of waste and inefficiency in Canadian health care. The private health sector in Canada has grown to nearly a third (29%) of total health expenditures, largely in

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Black Women in Canada

WEBEducation is a foundational pillar within Canadian society and is publicly recognized as a “fundamental social good.” For countless Black students, however, educational institutions are places where they encounter “degradation, harm, and psychological violence.”³ The discourse of race neutrality⁴ or colour blindness prevalent in Canada’s education system …

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Keys to tackling the affordable housing crisis in Nova Scotia

WEBThe affordable housing crisis is also about a lack of services, and discrimination. We recommend: substantially increasing income assistance to bring people to the poverty line, raising the minimum wage, and ensuring addictions and mental health services are available. African Nova Scotians have faced dispossession of their land and …

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5 ways the Harper government changed Canada The Monitor

WEBGenerally, “economic migration” has ballooned under the Harper government while “entries to Canada in the ‘humanitarian’ category, which is predominantly made up of refugees, are down 43% since 2006.”. The number of family-class immigrants “dropped by 10,000 in the first four years of the Conservative government,” writes Harsha

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Ten things to know about social assistance in Canada

WEBIn other words, by design, social assistance has two contradictory objectives: 1) to give people enough money to live on; and 2) to not give people enough money to live on. In Canada, social assistance coverage expanded in the post-World War II era; it then contracted in the 1980s and 1990s. In the years following World War II, Canada

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How the CCPA sparked a national conversation about… The …

WEBCanada is the worst historic contributor to carbon emissions on a per capita basis. According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the national annual per capita average of emissions was 19.4 tonnes. The top 10% of Canadians emitted 60.3 tonnes of CO2 per capita per year; the top 1% 190 tonnes per capita.

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Indigenous Peoples continue to face deep structural… The Monitor

WEBIndigenous Peoples are forced to take their cases to human rights tribunals or courts simply to have their basic needs met. The cumulative impact of these structural inequalities reach every sphere and the very basis of a good life: access to land, housing, education, culture, health care and a fair justice system.

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