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Clinicians and health service heads are willing to accept a lower standard of care for people outside of major cities because they consider it ‘better than nothing’.
Despite the historic passage of pharmacare legislation, its rollout remains uncertain. While some provinces have already reached deals with Ottawa, others remain in discussions.
Left out of FDR’s New Deal, the health insurance program for the poor was finally established in 1965.
Despite a shortage of physicians, Canada still struggles with the question of whether a doctor licensed in one province should be automatically qualified to practice in others.
More than a century ago, the US learned what happens when there is no national response to a major health crisis.
You’re usually asked to rate pain from ‘no pain’ to ‘worst pain imaginable’. But does everyone imagine the same thing?
To support youth mental health, Canada must work towards reversing global megatrends like climate change and insecure employment, while also investing in youth mental health services.
Tracking disability policies has long been challenging − this will become a harder task under the Trump administration.
Thousands of American pharmacies have shuttered over the past five years.
Here’s what the evidence says, and how they work overseas.
Only 5% of guidelines define the terms ‘sex’ and ‘gender’.
Access to health care is a big one as rural hospitals close. Two researchers who focus on rural issue explain how the federal government could help.
At a moment of soul-searching about health care in the US, an expert on global health puts the American system in perspective.
The murder of a health care insurance executive has brought scrutiny to the ways that insurance companies can make it difficult for insured patients to get the care they need.
A B.C. judge’s injunction blocking a MAiD case has been denounced by supporters of broad access to medical assistance in dying. But judicial oversight over MAiD practice is essential.
Most people who record their medical appointments do so to help them understand and remember medical information.
A global study found only 16% of local governments using AI systems had public facing policies about what they were doing.
People with disability die of conditions such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes at a much higher rate than the rest of the population.
In a new study, we interviewed and shadowed 14 doctors in a public hospital to understand the pressures they are under.
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
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Indigenous Science Research Director, Indigenous Science and Engagement, CSIRO
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Professor of Gerontology, UMass Boston
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Professor (adjunct) and Senior Fellow, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Michigan
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Rutgers University - Newark
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George Dock Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan
