Nova Scotia, ahead of the release of a Health Equity Framework, focused on addressing inequities within publicly funded institutions.Purposive sampling was used to recruit individuals working on health equity initiatives including those in high-level leadership positions within the Nova Scotia health ...
1 [16]. Notably, this social determinants of health framework conceptualizes the health system itself as an influential determinant of health [16]. This informed the focus of this review in understanding how provincial and national cancer organizations envision and/or address health equity at the ...
As a first step, we were interested in identifying whether or how documents provided a clear definition of health or healthcare equity or related terms, the types of terms used, and the ways in which the terms were defined. A range of terms was used when referring to health or healthcare...
Our results indicate that, in several key areas, the primary health care needs of LGBTQ populations in Nova Scotia are not being met and this may in turn contribute to their poor health outcomes across the life course. A framework of intersectionality and health equity was used to interpret ...
The Nova Scotia Liberals won the October 8 provincial election on a platform that included the amalgamation of health districts, vowing to reinvest savings from “bloated” bureaucracies in front-line care. Meanwhile, in Alberta, the government has stripped Alberta Health Services of its autonomy. ...
Communities in action: pathways to health equity [Internet]. Washington, DC: The National Academies PressOnline access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press; 2017. 3 The Root Causes of Health Inequity. Paradies Y, Ben J, Denson N, Elias A, Priest N, Pieterse A, et al. ...
Closing the gap in a generation : health equity through action on the social determinants of health : Commission on Social Determinants of Health final report. World Health Organization, Commission on Social Determinants of Health. 2008. Yusuf S, Joseph P, Rangarajan S, Islam S, Mente A, ...
Other participants from Nova Scotia echoed this sentiment, pointing to the need to provide a more equity-oriented and “gendered response” to the pandemic that supported FPs professionally and “in the context of their family and the stress they’re going through, and we didn’t do that at ...
but were at least operated locally with less-aggressive financial motives. To private equity firms, healthcare is just another widget factory that can be squeezed harder to enrich investors. It’s no surprise, then, that even the doctors who benefited financially from PE acquisitions often don’...
This framework included established criteria such as assessing safety and clinical effectiveness, incorporating economic considerations, conducting budget impact analyses, evaluating organizational impact, feasibility considerations, and acceptability to healthcare providers and patients, and noted equity and ...