A study from the University of Calgary and the Calgary Local Immigration Partnership finds that between 2013 and 2016, the…
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Health in the News
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Discussing waiting lists for access to family doctors, at an editorial board meeting with The Telegraph-Journal last June, NB Health Council CEO Stéphane Robichaud said he believed the problem wasn't fundamentally a doctors’ shortage. Instead, it…
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The Telegraph-Journal spoke to the United Way of Greater Saint John’s Executive Director Wendy MacDermott about poverty issues facing the Sussex area. MacDermott said the statistics are almost as bad as Saint John, highlighting the New Brunswick…
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The report, by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences panel, aims to assist the Public Health Agency of Canada in…
- NBHC Care Experience
The Age-Well National Innovation Hub at Simon Fraser University in Surrey, B.C., received $3.5 million in funding from Western Economic Diversification Canada, a federal government agency. The money is for a digital health circle, which will…
- NBHC Care Experience
The goal of the EHR is to assess and prevent the spread of communicable diseases, allowing residents to rid themselves of paper records for vaccinations. The Public Health Information Solution (PHIS) will store information related to vaccine…
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The CFHI will be working with seven additional organizations to spread Embedding Palliative Approaches to Care (EPAC). EPAC helps staff in long term care to identify residents who could…
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Dr. Daniel Dutton, a teacher at a Saint John medical school, suggests spending on social programs can impact outcomes more than traditional health spending. He previously led a study…
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While the B.C. government had $75 million earmarked in its budget for respite care and adult day programs to ease the pressure on family members supporting seniors in their homes, the delivery of home care and day activity programs to support…
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People who are alcohol dependent will be assisted by new Alcohol Care Teams and smokers will be helped to stop in a drive to see all smokers encouraged to quit. The program comes alongside prevention initiative to curb obesity and diabetes to…
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CMAJ points out that while the Canada Health Act guarantees the portability of care across the country, the piecemeal nature of health record storage presents barriers to the sharing of data and results in duplication of diagnostic tests. Even…
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The award-winning program is designed to help seniors in P.E.I. to stay in their own home for longer to reduce ER overcrowding. One of the…
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Health Canada will contribute $2.3 million over four years towards an opioid stewardship program in Saskatchewan. The project aims to raise awareness and develop new approaches to chronic pain management by promoting appropriate opioid…
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During the 2016-2017 fiscal year, researchers at the University of Waterloo examined that prescribing habits of Ontario family doctors with regards to oral antibiotics. It found that 39% of late-career physicians - those practicing 25 years or…
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Research from the University of Waterloo suggests that if Ontario was to expand the scope of practice for pharmacists to bring them more in line with…
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This First Nations Health Council video outlines the history of the Tripartite First Nations Health Governance Structure in B.C., the agreements that led to its creation, and the work in transforming outcomes through service improvements in…