The premiers are demanding more funding from the federal government for health care. Yet more cash without real change would be the real betrayal of Canada’s public health-care system.
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Nigeria’s unreliable power supply comes with a triple challenge of social, economic and environmental costs.
Recent Alberta legislation increasing privatization in the health sector risks undermining the public health-care system, and will likely put profits over the public interest.
Most Kenyans are able to access basic care but face the barrier of potentially catastrophic fees.
Those who work in the background to keep everyone healthy — public health nurses, health inspectors, laboratory techs and epidemiologists — deserve recognition in the fight against COVID-19.
Nutrition policies offer the chance for us to think differently about men and women’s roles in society.
The high cost of dental treatment is stopping almost half of all New Zealanders from seeking care when they need it. Funding at least parts of dental care publicly could change that.
Despite the fact that rare diseases aren’t actually so rare, it appears they suffer from a branding problem in Canada.
Female-centred health services are good, but they may detract from gender equality and men’s health.
South Africa’s Competition Commission has delayed the release of the final report of an inquiry into the private healthcare again.
Using a large number of computers to screen TB drugs reduces the cost and time.
In Hobart supporting the Tasmanian Greens ahead of the state election, Greens leader Richard Di Natale said ‘in one of our states, women are not getting access to safe terminations’. Is that correct?
Health outcomes for rural Americans have steadily deteriorated in recent decades even as they’ve improved elsewhere. The GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will worsen the problem.
Patient portals are fast becoming a way of health care life in the U.S., but they are leaving an important group behind. Latinos are much less likely to use portals than non-Latinos.
Hillary Clinton’s health care plan includes a public option and lowering the age limit for Medicare. Both would be hard to get through Congress.
The government has put a lot of effort into making health care in South Africa more accessible, but the quality of the service still lags behind.
Much has been written about the poor public health and clinical capacity to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Inadequate medical and nursing staff resources, inadequate isolation wards, inadequate…
Across Europe and the US, the cost of treating food allergies is incredibly high. The reasons remain unclear but rates of food allergies in the UK have risen sharply in the past 20 years and hospital admissions…
Cost is the main reason people don’t go to the dentist, according to a recent study. Other factors, such as fear, time constraints…
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