…alone. Uninsured residents include individuals who have lost their identification, people in the three month OHIP wait period, temporary visa holders (ex. students, visitors), some refugees and undocumented residents. Presently, essential health care services are extremely limited and inadequate for uninsured residents. Research indicates that priority health needs include obstetrical,…
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A new normal
…have lost their livelihood, the people who have lost their jobs and the students who have had their education disrupted. If we just go back to normal we are disrespecting these sacrifices, we are ignoring what COVID-19 has taught us, and we are leaving ourselves vulnerable to the next pandemic….
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Prioritizes Trade Over Health
…the negative health impacts of the TPP. The former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, believes that the TPP will cost lives. In Australia, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales reported significant health impacts such as the ability to regulate alcohol and food…
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Synthesis
…last year to try to better understand the sustainability of our progress. Economic One method to analyze our trajectory is to assess whether Ontarians are living more economically secure lives. We scrutinized our social protection programs and other supports for low-income individuals.[i] Changes over the past year to universal social…
Supporting support workers: PSWs need increased protections during COVID-19
…calling in military aid are some of these measures. Despite this, there is still a need to increase protections for PSWs, who continue to risk their own lives to care for older adults at risk of infection. PSWs represent about 85 per cent of the staff in LTC homes. Yet,…
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Paying research participants: what’s the right amount?
Understanding people’s lived experience plays an important role in developing good policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA. When conducting research, we often ask people to participate in interviews, focus groups, and surveys. We ask them to make time in their lives to share often very personal…
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What the candidates aren’t talking about – HEIA in the Federal Election
…would do for Canada’s middle class, from tax policy to child care policy to infrastructure policy. Lost among this rhetoric, however, has been discussion of increasing income inequality in Canada and what that means to our society and our health. Source: J. David Hulchanski, The Three…
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Federal Budget Response 2021
…dramatically reduce homelessness for each one of the coming years until the job is done. Third, we called for an end to poverty. The economic damage from COVID-19 has disproportionately fallen on low-income workers, their families, and their communities, as they lost income, jobs, homes, and loved ones. We applaud…
Welcome Steps on Supportive Housing and Mental Health
…included a new structured psychotherapy program and mental health service hubs for youth. Wellesley Institute welcomes these new funding commitments that will help promote health and help people who live with serious mental illness or addictions to lead healthier lives. Supportive housing helps people who live with disabilities or chronic…
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Inequality, Walmart workers and our health
Much of the recent focus on increased inequality has been at the top of the income scale; these are important stories to tell but they are also easier to tell: rapacious financiers, powerful Bay Street lawyers, physicians who hold our lives in their hands, or the glamorous lives of the…