Ian Irvine – Tobacco Harm Reduction (part One) – Guiding Principles
From: Ian Irvine To: Canadians Concerned About Vaping Date: September 2, 2020 Re: Tobacco Harm Reduction (Part One) – Guiding Principles The central challenge for governments in the area of e-cigarette use is to formulate policies that simultaneously encourage smokers to switch to vaping (or quit nicotine use entirely) and to discourage young people from starting. To […] Vivek Goel – A Population Health Approach To Covid-19
From: Vivek Goel To: Canada’s Health Policy Planners Date: August 28, 2020 Re: A Population Health Approach to COVID-19 Much of the initial attention, particularly from the media and public, to COVID-19 has been on the disease and its consequences. It is clearly a disease with devastating potential, as seen in Italy and New York […] Blit, Jin, Skuterud – Re-opening And Re-closing The Economy Strategically
From: Joel Blit, Chuanmo Jin and Mikal Skuterud To: Canadians Concerned About the Economy Date: August 21, 2020 Re: Re-opening and Re-closing the Economy Strategically In the relative calm between waves of COVID-19, policymakers are facing pressure to shift their focus from efforts to control the virus, towards ways to revive the economy. But the biggest determinant […] S2 E12 – COVID-19: Catalyst for Change in Canadian Health
COVID-19 has revealed “pre-existing conditions” in Canada’s healthcare system. Queen’s University professors Dr. Duncan Sinclair and Don Drummond tell host Michael Hainsworth that the solution is to spend money on young people to keep them healthy – and address the fiscal and healthcare crunch of an aging population. Jenkins, Kronick – Health And The Economy – With Numbers
From: Paul Jenkins and Jeremy M. Kronick To: Policymakers at all levels of government Date: July 13, 2020 Re: Health and the Economy – With Numbers When the pandemic nature of the COVID-19 virus was finally recognized, Canada acted boldly to contain and control its spread. We didn’t know as much as we know now, […] Wyonch, Maharishi – Low-value Care: Health’s Future And Fiscal Reckoning
From: Rosalie Wyonch and Shivani Maharishi To: Health policymakers and managers Date: July 3, 2020 Re: Low-Value Care: Health’s Future and Fiscal Reckoning The COVID-19 pandemic has created a backlog of delayed health services and lower government revenues resulting in turbulence for Canada’s healthcare sector. These changes and uncertainty are anticipated to continue for some […] Rosalie Wyonch – Low-value Care And Covid-19
From: Rosalie Wyonch To: Canadians concerned about healthcare Date: June 22, 2020 Subject: Low-Value Care and COVID-19 Low-value healthcare provides little to no benefit to patients and can cause harm. Previous research has shown that there is much low-value care in Canada. The OECD estimates that about 20 percent of health spending is directed to activities that do not […] Rosalie Wyonch – Low-value Care: Re-opening The Healthcare System And Living With Covid-19
From: Rosalie Wyonch To: Healthcare policymakers and managers Date: June 16, 2020 Re: Low-Value Care: Re-opening the healthcare system and living with COVID-19 Canadian provinces are in the midst of re-opening their economies and healthcare systems following the restrictions imposed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The shutdown came fast, but the recovery is slow. This […] S2 E9 – The Vape Debate with Ian Irvine
Vaping is safer than smoking. But is Canada taking the right approach to a technology that could save lives? C.D. Howe Institute Research Fellow and Concordia University professor Ian Irvine says the drop in cigarette sales illustrates vaping’s upside. Nursing Home Fatalities Expose Weakness in Long-Term Care Provision: Crisis Working Group on Public Health and Emergency Measures
June 2, 2020 — While Canada has invested in residential long-term care at similar levels to other countries, it has drastically under-invested in home and community-based care, according to the C.D. Howe Institute’s Crisis Working Group on Public Health and Emergency Measures. Long-term care and retirement homes are the center of the epidemic in Canada, with about 80 percent of COVID deaths having occurred in residential care facilities — a death rate much higher than most other nations.
Because a high proportion of seniors in Canada live in an institutional care setting, they are at a much higher risk of exposure, infection and death from COVID-19 than seniors living in the community or in the home. While there is…
Green, Simard-duplain, Siu – A Covid Assessment Tool To Guide The Opening And Closing Of Sectors
From: David A. Green, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain, and Henry E. Siu To: Policymakers across Canada Date: June 2, 2020 Re: A COVID Assessment Tool to Guide the Opening and Closing of Sectors Since early May, the number of new Canadian COVID cases and – importantly – the number of COVID-related deaths, is on a downward trajectory. Now, public attention […] Schwanen, Robson – Ontario Needs More Clarity On Its Re-opening Process
From: Daniel Schwanen and William B.P. Robson To: Canadians concerned about re-opening the economy Date: May 27, 2020 Re: Ontario needs more clarity on its re-opening process Re-opening locked-down economies is not easy. Because governments did the locking down, governments are key to the re-opening. How Ontario’s government manages it, given the province’s demographic and economic weight, will have […]