social determinants of health

Apr 09 2020

Release from incarceration during the concurrent COVID-19 and opioid use crises

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Releasing people from the high-risk environment that is incarceration is important, but so is knowing what people are being released to.

Apr 02 2020

COVID-19, Reflections

Safeguarding the health of Canada’s most vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Using the same resolve with which we rush to acquire personal protective equipment and ventilators, we must ensure that Canadians don’t fall through the socioeconomic cracks.

Apr 01 2020

COVID-19, Medical Dispatches, Reflections, Tara Kiran

A story of the twin crises of COVID-19 and homelessness

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Where do patients without a home wait for results? Will they have a bed to return to if they test negative? How can they self-isolate if positive? And what happens...

Oct 21 2019

Reflections

Structural violence and Canada’s overdose catastrophe: time for a Royal Commission

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Dan Small is a medical anthropologist and lecturer at the University of British Columbia. Since 2018, British Columbia has been pursuing legal action against pharmaceutical companies for their involvement...

Feb 25 2019

Reflections

The impact of poverty on Canadian children: a call for action

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Cal Robinson is a PGY2 Pediatrics resident at McMaster University interested in how social determinants of health impact Canadian children. On November 22nd, 2018, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government unveiled...

Dec 20 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Heavy secret

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Noémie La Haye-Caty is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at McGill University Katy is sleeping on the exam table. She came in looking tired, talking with a weak voice,...

Dec 03 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Defining global health

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Ruth Habte is a medical student in the Class of 2019 at the University of Manitoba I have been privileged to take part in implementing global health programming while in medical school,...

Oct 08 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Allyship, building coalitions of the willing, and communities of interest

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Yipeng Ge is a medical student in the Class of 2020 at the University of Ottawa Humbled. I am so truly humbled that I get to work with and learn from so...

May 14 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Outside the walls of the hospital: reflections on doing an MPH during residency

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Ameer Farooq is a General Surgery Resident (R3) at the University of Calgary who completed his Master of Public Health at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health...

Jan 11 2018

Student Humanities Blog

Homelessness and health: an elective experience

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Maria Powell is an Internal Medicine Resident (R1) at the University of Calgary who graduated from medical school at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2017 Admittedly, my social histories used to consist...

Dec 10 2016

Reflections

A neglected determinant of health: Urban design

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Li (Danny) Liang is a second year medical student at the University of Toronto with a BEng degree and a deep interest in the intersection of urban design and health...

Oct 11 2016

Medical Dispatches, Primary Care, Reflections

Let’s not be our own worst enemies

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Bonnie Larson is Family Physician at Calgary Urban Project Society (CUPS) Health Centre Recently I called the emergency department from my outreach clinic in an urban shelter. Near the...

Apr 14 2016

Reflections

Time to transform the medical curriculum in Aboriginal Health

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Meghna Rajaprakash is a medical student at the University of Toronto (class of 2016) The recent Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report (2015) called upon medical schools “to require...

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