OHTs are being introduced to provide a new way of
organizing and delivering care that is more integrated
from the perspective of the patients in their local
communities, and that achieves measurable
improvements in key quadruple-aim metrics of
improving care experiences and health outcomes at
manageable ...
Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with additional
graduate education and experience.(1; 2) As regulated
health professionals, nurse practitioners have a legislated
expanded scope of practice that gives them independent
authority to assess, diagnose and provide treatment.(3)
This broader scope of ...
Prenatal education has expanded significantly over the
past two decades, from its initial conception as an
opportunity to teach pain management in labour and
preparation for birth in the hospital environment to
including broader public-health principles of preparing
women and their families for pregnancy...
In February 2019, the Government of Ontario revealed
its plans to reform the Ontario health system. The plans
include the amalgamation of the province’s six
provincial agencies (i.e., Cancer Care Ontario, Health
Quality Ontario, eHealth Ontario, Trillium Gift of Life
Network, Health Shared Services Ont...
The health of British Columbians has continued to
improve over the past decade, with gains in healthadjusted life expectancy and a gradual decrease in the
gap between the life expectancy of women and men.(1)
These gains in health status have come, in part, as a
result of provincial efforts to strengthen ...
Canada, like most high-income countries, is experiencing an aging
population, with those over 65 being on track to represent 25% of the
Canadian population by 2050. This shift in population demographics is
requiring significant changes in the delivery of health and social services
including an increased ...
Improving labour-market participation of youth is a
common objective across most advanced economies.
Achieving this goal is critical to developing a strong
economy, as well as for ensuring the social cohesion and
inclusion of youth in society.(1) However, countries
around the world face the significant c...
The regulation and oversight of the health professionals
responsible for providing care to patients in Ontario is
an important mechanism to ensure patients receive the
highest-quality care possible (e.g., by setting the
standards that professionals need to meet in their
practice) while mitigating, to the...
Socio-economic status (SES) is (based on the
definition from BC Stats) a measure of the economic
and social status of an individual or group of
individuals based on education, income, occupation,
and other relevant indicators, relative to other
members of the population.(1) Given that it is an
indicator ...
What are the features of different non-urgent
transportation models and what approaches may improve
use of non-urgent transportation in Ontario?...
