Health Insight
Future of Health Care 2024
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How One Coalition Is Creating a Sustainable, Resilient Health System
The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care helps hospitals, clinics, and health organizations deliver care that protects both people and the planet. Canada’s health care system faces a paradox: sworn to “do no harm,” yet responsible for five per cent of our national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — a footprint larger than the airline industry. This contribution to the climate crisis creates a troubling feedback...
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Opportunity Exists in Improving Access to Vaccines
With broad public support from across Canada, NACI-recommended vaccines should be publicly funded to help increase vaccine uptake. Large-scale vaccination reduces the burden on an already strained health system For some two hundred years, vaccines have protected people from a host of diseases and have saved more lives than any other intervention in modern medicine.1...
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The Future of Health Care Happens at George Brown College
With state-of-the-art technology and facilities, real-world experience, and faculty and clinical staff who work in the field, George Brown College’s Centre for Health Sciences develops tomorrow’s health-care workforce. We train nurses, personal support workers, dental health, health-care administration, hearing services, and behavioural science professionals who stand ready to work with people across the lifespan and...
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The Future of Canadian Vaccine Manufacturing Is Here — and Ready for Future Pandemics
Sanofi Canada’s leading advanced biotechnology manufacturing and upcoming state-of-the-art vaccine manufacturing facilities are helping Canada to be future-ready and self-sufficient. The past few years have underscored the vital importance of access to made-in-Canada vaccines, treatments, and resources to help protect Canadians from illness. At the onset of the pandemic, many organizations quickly mobilized to produce...
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Taking The Fatigue Out Of Compassion
Do you feel worn out when helping others? Would you believe that “compassion fatigue” is not to blame? CAPSA has trained thousands of service providers, in the caring professions, on substance use stigma. Consistently, participants raise urgent concerns of burnout, frustration, and fatigue. They ask how they can continue caring, in compassionate ways, when they...
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Access to Community Support and Services Within Reach for All Ontarians
This organization is leaning on innovation to provide Ontarians free and confidential access to mental health community-based supports and services. For those struggling with mental health or addiction, the Ontario healthcare landscape can be tricky to navigate. Roughly one in three Canadians will experience mental illness at some point in their life, while an estimated...
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The Future of Canadian Health Care is in Communities
Health care in Canada has evolved significantly over the years, with an increased focus on delivering personalized and accessible services. One approach gaining momentum, alongside practices like virtual care, is Mobile Integrated Health (MIH). It’s a holistic, team-based approach that brings health care services directly to individuals within their homes and communities. Supporting people and...
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Why LifeLabs Is on a Mission to Improve Health Care Access
LifeLabs, Canada’s leading laboratory in diagnostic information, stands at the forefront of addressing accessibility barriers in our healthcare system. While Canada prides itself on a universal and publicly funded healthcare system, recent studies reveal significant challenges faced by millions of Canadians accessing primary physicians, which leads to delays in receiving essential health services. From emergency...
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The Future of Health Care: Melanoma Canada’s Mole Mobile Leads the Way
Counteracting the shortage of health care professionals in Canada, the Mole Mobile travels throughout Canada to provide care to patients directly. In an exciting leap forward, Melanoma Canada’s Mole Mobile is rewriting the rules of health care accessibility, making skin cancer screening available to thousands of Canadians. This innovative mobile skin cancer screening unit, the...
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Parkinson’s Care: Shaping the Future of Health Care
By fostering collaboration, research, and community-building, Parkinson Canada is on a mission to improve the lives of people living with Parkinson’s. Living with Parkinson’s presents unique challenges, especially in accessing health care. Parkinson’s, a complex brain disease, affects over 100,000 Canadians, with 30 new diagnoses daily. Recognizing the individual journey of each person with Parkinson’s...