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Provinces will feel the bite when it comes to health care transfers - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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  • Mar. 28, 2016
  • Big spending is the big trend in Ottawa again. The Trudeau government’s first budget signalled a new era of activist government with bold plans to boost federal outlays on infrastructure, families with children, and clean water, housing and education for aboriginal Canadians.
  • All this activism makes the budget’s silence on health care all the more curious. Not only is there no commitment to restore the former Harper government’s cuts to provincial health transfers, which take effect in 2017, but the budget did not even follow through on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s campaign promise to boost spending on home care by $3-billion over four years.
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Kashechewan Crisis Shows 2 Canadian Health Care Realities: Doctors - 0 views

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from heather aboriginal cuts quality

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  • 03/28/2016
  • OTTAWA — Doctors dispatched to a northern Ontario reserve to treat children with skin conditions say remote communities are dealing with an ongoing medical crisis, the result of a shortage of medical services.Three physicians from the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority have written an open letter calling for more resources to deal with persistent problems at the Kashechewan First Nation and elsewhere.
  • The letter, released by northern Ontario MP Charlie Angus, urges Canadians not to tolerate the level of health care access available in the area.
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  • "This ongoing medical crisis is related to access to medical services," the letter said. "Canadians would not, and should not accept the access to health care that those in these remote communities live with on a daily basis."
Govind Rao

CFHI - Building an Indigenous Mental Health System of Care: Why Culture Matters - 1 views

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from heather aboriginal conference

shared by Govind Rao on 30 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Part of CFHI's Recommended Learning Journey on Indigenous Health.
  • April 5, 2016
  • 12:00 p.m. EDT
Govind Rao

'Medical crisis' not limited to Kash, say docs | Timmins Press - 0 views

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from heather aboriginal quality cuts

shared by Govind Rao on 30 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • March 29, 2016
  • KASHECHEWAN - Three doctors who were sent to investigate the skin lesions of children on Kashechewan First Nation have written an open letter saying there remains an “ongoing medical crisis” not only in Kashechewan but in all of the James Bay coastal communities. “This ongoing medical crisis is related to access to medical services. Canadians would not, and should not accept the access to health care that those in these remote communities live with on a daily basis,” reads the letter.
  • According to doctors Gordon Green, Zahra Jaffer, and Cameron Maclean of the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority, medical service levels in the communities are so low that anything beyond primary care requires people to leave so they can get treatment.
Govind Rao

Closing the Gap: Action for health equity - Upstream - 1 views

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from heather equity aboriginal access ally quality

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  • Join Canada's Social Determinants of Health leaders and decision makers for an exciting two-part event hosted by Upstream.
  • Govind Rao on 29 Mar 16
     
    April 3, 2016
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Statement of Solidarity with BlackLivesMatterTO Coalition - CUPE Ontario - 0 views

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from heather cupe Ontario racism

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  • March 24, 2016
  • Anti-Black racism is real. As Ontario’s community union, CUPE Ontario advocates for strong, healthy communities that are safe for everyone. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter – Toronto because CUPE members face anti-Black racism. We support Black Lives Matter because this is about us—about our members, our families, and our communities. But this is also about solidarity against oppression. We are proud to stand with Aboriginal groups, the student movement, and other allies in the fight against anti-Black racism.
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Dental care should be part of basic health care: UBC study - 0 views

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from heather dental health medicare research

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  • Brian Morton, Vancouver Sun  04.04.2016
  • All Canadians, especially low-income Canadians, should have dental care as part of their basic health care coverage, a new study by the University of B.C. concludes.According to a survey of 567 people in four primary health care clinics in B.C. and Ontario that served large numbers of low-income and aboriginal residents, 46 per cent rated their oral health as fair to poor, with 44 per cent saying they sometimes or often experience pain in their teeth and mouth.
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Attawapiskat health-care workers 'overwhelmed' by suicide attempts | CTV News - 0 views

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from heather aboriginal suicide

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  • April 11, 2016
  • The handful of health-care workers in Attawapiskat are "overwhelmed" by the suicide attempts wracking the remote northern Ontario community. Mushkegowuk Council Grand Chief Jonathan Solomon says there are only four health-care workers tasked with addressing the crisis, none of whom have specialized mental health training
  • Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Bruce Shisheesh declared a state of emergency over the weekend, after 11 people in the community of 2,000 attempted to take their own lives on Saturday alone.
Govind Rao

CFHI - Building an Indigenous Mental Health System of Care: The Thunderbird Partnership... - 0 views

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from heather conference mental health aboriginal

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  • Part of CFHI's Recommended Learning Journey on Indigenous Health.
  • April 21, 2016 12:00 p.m. EDT
  • A recent study found that a third of First Nations clients who entered treatment for addiction were diagnosed or suspected of having a mental health disorder.
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Dental care should be part of basic health care: UBC study | Vancouver Sun - 0 views

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from heather dental health bc Ontario medicare

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  • April 4, 2016
  • All Canadians, especially low-income Canadians, should have dental care as part of their basic health care coverage, a new study by the University of B.C. concludes. According to a survey of 567 people in four primary health care clinics in B.C. and Ontario that served large numbers of low-income and aboriginal residents, 46 per cent rated their oral health as fair to poor, with 44 per cent saying they sometimes or often experience pain in their teeth and mouth.
  • Govind Rao on 11 Apr 16
     
    Almost half of respondents to a survey of patients from marginalized populations in Ontario and British Columbia rated their oral health as fair to poor, according to a paper in BMJ Open. Researchers suggest that dental care should be part of basic health care coverage for low-income Canadians.
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Inuit infants in Arctic regions face highest lung-infection rates in the world - Infomart - 0 views

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  • The Globe and Mail Wed Oct 19 2016
  • Research shows newborn babies in some Arctic regions have the highest rates of serious lung infections ever recorded in medical literature. A paper published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says cases in Inuit infants in northern Quebec and western Nunavut are so numerous, it would be cheaper to treat all infants with a preventative medicine than wait until they get sick. "These are the highest rates in the world, higher than sub-Saharan Africa," said lead author Anna Banerji of the University of Toronto. Ms. Banerji and her colleagues have been studying respiratory infections among newborns in the Arctic for years. It's long been known the Canadian Arctic has abnormally high rates. But Ms. Banerji's latest study, which looked at differences between different regions, surprised even her. "Some of these rates are the highest documented rates in the medical literature."
  • In Nunavut's westernmost region, more than 40 per cent of all babies born in 2009 were later admitted to hospital with lung infections. In the area around western Hudson Bay, the figure was 24 per cent. And in Nunavik, or Arctic Quebec, nearly half of all newborns were hospitalized. Over all, lung infections for newborns just months old were 40 times southern rates, Ms. Banerji said. Just as alarming was the severity of the infection. The research paper documents cases of babies less than six months old spending weeks in intensive care and suffering permanent lung damage. Some needed CPR. Some needed last-ditch interventions. Some died. "These are just horribly, horribly sick kids," Ms. Banerji said. In the worst-afflicted areas, up to one in every 30 children born ends up in intensive care and struggling to breathe. The reasons are familiar: overcrowded homes, high exposure to cigarette smoke, poor nutrition. The lung infections are often complicated by other infections such as influenza.
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  • Ms. Banerji said Inuit may also have a genetic predisposition to these types of infections. But until those environmental conditions are addressed, a medicine called palivizumab is effective against such infections. In 2010, the Canadian Pediatric Society recommended that "consideration should be given" to administering a preventative drug to all fullterm Inuit infants younger than six months of age in areas with high rates of hospital admissions for respiratory infections. The territory currently gives palivizumab only to children born prematurely or who have chronic heart or lung conditions. The region of Nunavik has recently changed its policy and will administer the drug to all newborns. Palivizumab costs about $6,500 an infant. Ms. Banerji said the cost of treatment, including flying sick kids south, is so high that it would be cheaper to give it to all babies born in the worst areas. She says that policy would save $36,000 for each hospital admission avoided. It would also save wear and tear on families. "A mother has to either come with her two-month-old baby to the hospital in Ottawa and leave all the rest of the kids behind, or the baby's there all alone. It has a huge societal impact." The government of Nunavut has received a copy of the paper. The territory's chief medical officer of health was travelling Tuesday and not immediately available to react to its findings. © 2016 The Globe and Mail Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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