How Can We Start Addressing Disparities in Patient Care and Move Toward Health Equity? A Behavioural Science Perspective
With discrimination endemic in many social systems, including our medical system, it is essential to have an understanding and respect for how these experiences shape behaviours and attitudes around healthcare, ...
Rethinking Physician Contracts: A Focus on Non-Financial Incentives
In Canada, and globally, there has been an emphasis on physician payment models and other financial incentives over the past decade to encourage health system improvement. Non-financial incentives (e.g., audit ...
Nurses: We Answer the Call
As a registered nurse, as well as someone who contracted COVID-19 early in the first wave, I have had a unique front-row seat to this pandemic, and I will carry ...
Supplying the Healthcare Front Lines: Future Pandemic Planning Can Learn Much from Purpose-Driven Companies
When the pandemic began, Canada was not ready for the challenges that awaited the healthcare system and the supply chain. No one was. With medical supplies at their highest demand, ...
Health Outcomes: Improving Canada’s Health Information Literacy
As Ontario joins several other provinces in lifting mask mandates for most indoor settings, it remains critical that health information and proper analysis of health data are at the forefront ...
Advancing Patient-Partnered Research: Empowerment, Innovation and Evolution
From the perspective of patient partners, the Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit Engaging Multi-stakeholders for Patient Oriented-research Wider Effects and Reach Awards have facilitated successful patient-partnered research projects, which, in turn, ...
Déjà vu: Seventy Years of Hallway Medicine in Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed long-standing shortcomings and inequities in the Canadian healthcare system. While various publications have attempted to describe the root causes of these challenges, the subject is not ...
Hospitals Need to Give Front-line Workers More Flexibility to Prevent Burnout
As bleak as they are, the increasingly frequent headlines about healthcare workers getting burnt out by the COVID-19 pandemic should come as no surprise.
The Legacy of “Google Ali”
Ali Abid used to say, “There is nothing hard in this world, so long as you are willing to do it.” Was it nature or nurture that made him view ...
Excellent Long-Term Care for Canadians and Federal Legislation
COVID-19 crashed into an already broken healthcare system, exposing its many abject vulnerabilities. Of Canada’s confirmed and probable COVID-19 deaths, 85% were in LTC homes— far higher than the ...
