Taking into account aging, population growth and inflation, [Marc Lee] says Canada's public system can be maintained at current levels by increasing expenditures about 4.4 per cent a year. That's below the nominal growth in the economy, which has averaged 5.4 per cent over the past 20 years. There's a notion in the public that as the baby-boom generation recedes into retirement years, this is going to push health-care costs over the cliff, but it's not true," Lee says.
That is a curiosity of health care in Canada, where successive governments have dumped heaps of cash into the system in hopes of making it more responsive. But as in cardiac surgery in Manitoba, where more doctors were hired and much time spent on organizing wait periods better, the seemingly insatiable appetite for health services simply gobbled up the cash with the result that people continue to wait. More cardiologists and cardiac surgeons were hired, which produced longer lists of patients. The growing demand ran headlong into backlogs for pre-surgery tests and the shortages of nurses in surgical or critical care.
In recent years, only two published studies have examined the costs of internship programs and the services they provide (Greenberg, Cradock, Godbole, & Temkin, 1998; Schauble, Murphy, Cover-Paterson, & Archer, 1989). Schauble et al. (1989) examined the costs of an internship program at a university counselling centre in the United States. While the centre employed nine full-time senior staff and six full-time psychology interns, the demand for services was high, as it typically had a waiting list of 30 to 50 patients. As is the case with almost all internships, staff members were involved in several aspects of the internship training program, including intern seminars, group training, case conferences, special-population clinic training, and individual supervision. Psychology i...
What helps us get to the top of the pack is we're looking at investing the money where we really need it -- front line medical care," [Theresa Oswald] said. "The NDP should be supporting our bill to have accountability in health care as a fundamental principle," [Jon Gerrard] said. "And there was a Canadian Medical Association report saying 30 per cent of antibiotics prescribed are prescribed inappropriately. It's time we have a system where we don't prescribe antibiotics inappropriately.
... sued by provincial government to recover health care costs of tobacco-related illnesses, and by co...
ONE corporation's prescription for preventing the health-care system from "hitting the wall" and collapsing in 2015 raised the hackles of Manitoba health-care experts during a panel discussion in Winnipeg. Some tough decisions have to be made," IBM Canada's Neil Stuart told a group of high-level health-care providers and administrators at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. Panellist Dr. Brian Postl, CEO of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, said the complexity of human behaviour, racism and poverty all get in the way of people taking care of themselves, he said. The health-care system is far from a crisis, but it has done a poor job of addressing who it should say "no" to, Postl conceded.
The Health Council of Canada wants people to cast the same dubious eye on health-care spending, and to participate in a national conversation about taxpayer value for money when it comes to medicare. Health costs divert dollars that might be more usefully directed to the environment, social housing or early childhood education, all of which enhance health outcomes. While scrutiny of the health system in theory is a fine endeavour, ordinary Canadians don't have the information or the necessary perspective to make a truly informed analysis.
Happiness is defined by Veenhoven (2008) as "the overall appreciation of one 's life-as-a-whole, in short, how much one likes the life one lives" (p. 2, itaUcs in original). Seligman's (2002) work on authentic happiness focuses on an enduring experience of happiness. Sustainable happiness is relevant to essentially every definition of happiness. As a demonstration, consider the momentary pleasure of drinking a cup of coffee. Benefits of attending to and being mindful of the experience have been discussed by Brown and Kasser (2005) and Kabat-Zinn (2005). Viewed through the lens of sustainable happiness, this momentary pleasure can be placed in a wider context. Individuals can attend to whether that cup of coffee is fair trade coffee, which means that workers in the coffee plantation have...
... disciplines such as economics, business, health, and education that investigate happiness, subject... (which tends to overlook the environmental costs of conventional development so, e.g., the destruct...
This special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science hopes to achieve 3 interrelated goals. First, it defines what it means by a "healthy workplace," and it delineates the ways in which work is associated with mental health. Second, it reviews the individual, organizational, and societal costs of unhealthy work and workplaces, and, consequently, of poor mental and physical health. Finally, it provides a framework in terms of a healthy workplace model to help summarize this literature.
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