City Council will be considering recommendations from the Toronto Board of Health regarding health care for uninsured residents of Toronto. We and a number of progressive health care providers and researchers had appeared before the Board to support a Toronto Public Health Report. Uninsured populations currently face serious and damaging barriers to good health and […]
Health systems and Health equity
Learning From Others: Health Equity Strategies And Initiatives From Canadian Regional Health Authorities
Denise Kouri, Kouri Research Commissioned by the Wellesley Institute Health disparities are a topic of increasing importance in Canada. In the last two years, they have been the focus of national and international reports analyzing and documenting the problems and proposing strategies for addressing them. This report examines the strategic and operational response of leading […]
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Equitable Access To Good Health And Health Care For Uninsured Residents
On April 29, I had the opportunity to present to the Toronto Board of Health recommendations and policy changes needed to ensure equitable access to good health and health care for all in Toronto, including our most marginalized populations such as the uninsured. Uninsured populations currently face serious and damaging barriers to good health and […]
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“Ferociously” Acting On Equitable Access And Health Of Medically Uninsured Residents In Toronto
The Wellesley Institute, along with researchers, representatives from Community Health Centres (CHCs), Toronto Public Health, Women’s College, Association of Ontario Midwives, and frontline physicians and midwives were at City Hall yesterday to address the Toronto Board of Health on a Toronto Public Health report on medically uninsured residents. The tone of the meeting was set […]
Realizing The Potential Of Health In All Policies: Lessons From Finland
Health in All Policies (HiAP) is an increasingly common approach to address the social determinants of health, recognizing that the determinants of health are affected by sectors well beyond health care and so, the implications for health must be embedded in policy development and implementation across different government ministries. Finland has been one of its […]
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Learning From Others: Comprehensive Health Equity Strategies In Europe
Systemic and damaging health inequities have been increasingly on the policy agenda across the world in the last decade. A number of European countries have been leading the way in developing comprehensive health equity strategies. This paper highlights the great potential of comprehensive strategies to ground and connect the kinds of policy, investment, program and […]
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Closing The Health Council Of Canada: Another Missed Opportunity
By Bob Gardner and Emily Wong The federal government’s decision to stop funding the Health Council of Canada as of March 2014 had prompted an outcry from the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and other health care organizations, which fear the loss of an independent voice to monitor health system performance and reform. CMA president, Dr. […]
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The Millennial Movement: An Urban Force To Be Reasoned And Reckoned With
As the fourth installment of the Big City Big Ideas lecture series, U of T’s Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) hosted a panel discussion exploring the role of Millennials in reshaping the urban landscape. For those of you who are not hip to this terminology, Millennials are quite simply the children of the […]
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Connecting the determinants of children’s well-being in Canada’s disappointing UNICEF ranking
A new report, Child well-being in rich countries: A comparative overview, was released yesterday by UNICEF. In a comparison of 29 advanced economy countries, Canada ranks in 17th place. When children’s views of their life satisfaction are taken into account, Canada’s ranking drops even further to 24th place. The report measures well-being using five broad dimensions of […]
Integrated Breast Cancer Care: Building Equity Into Innovation
A new breast cancer centre opened at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre last week, becoming the largest of its kind in Canada. The Louise Temerty Breast Cancer Centre adopts the integrative model of housing the whole spectrum of breast cancer care under one roof, including direct access to screening, rapid assessments and diagnosis, and tailored treatment […]
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