Tag: chronic diseases

• April 25

  Groundbreaking Canadian cohort studies aim to shed light on risk factors for cancer, chronic diseases

  The British Whitehall studies helped establish the importance of the social determinants of health, while a Danish study of children provided strong evidence to disprove the damaging MMR-vaccine-causes-autism hypothesis. Those are...Read more
• February 28

  Health Links: Ontario's bid to provide more efficient and effective care for its sickest citizens

  Ontario’s Health Links initiative is a “big manoeuvre” in a complex provincial system, acknowledges Helen Angus, associate deputy minister with the transformation secretariat of the Ministry of Health and Long...Read more
• February 6

  Quit (smoking) while you're ahead

  I knew he was sick when he told me he'd thrown out his cigarettes on account of how badly he felt.  Mr. P had gotten used to the breathlessness when he...Read more
• December 6

  Changes called for as 1% of population accounts for 1/3 of health care spending

  Ontario’s Health and Long-term Care Minister is calling for a change in how health care costs are scrutinized in light of research showing that a tiny proportion of the Ontario...Read more
• July 20

  Why nurses are the way of the future

  Our health care system is based on an on-demand model of physicians and hospitals providing acute and episodic care. While this system works well for the vast majority of citizens,...Read more
• July 9

  Inter professional education 2.0: training chronic disease management professionals online

  The economic costs associated with chronic diseases are significant, particularly in an era of reduced public funding and greater government accountability.  I would argue that inter-professional education (IPE) is going...Read more
• March 7

  Frequent flyers: aeroplan and health care

  This year I did not achieve Elite status on Air Canada/Aeroplan.  For the first time in a decade, I am without status on a major airline.  No number to call,...Read more