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The social solution to Canada’s health care problem

Monitor November/December 2023 Issue

From the Editor

The social solution to Canada’s health care problem

The medical care system clearly needs government support to get it back to health

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In this Issue

Social and medical spending: Flip sides of the same coin

Research finds the ratio between health and social spending is key to understanding health outcomes.

Three key health policy movements are aligning

Get Well Canada, well-being budgeting, and health-in-all-policies are converging to address the most critical factors shaping health are the economic, social and environmental conditions in which we live.

Addressing the fundamental causes of population health inequality

Health inequality is a persistent problem—and it's directly tied to other forms of inequality.

Canada needs to move from individual choice approach to whole-of-society approach

Half of our health and well-being is based on social determinants of health

How can we influence budgets?

Building power to change social structures

Healthy public policy requires working within and beyond the health care system

Population health metrics are about more than just health care—they're about the society we live in.

Hennessy’s Index: GDP vs. Well-being

More and more Canadians support governments prioritizing social metrics rather than just economic ones

The social solution to Canada’s health care problem

The medical care system clearly needs government support to get it back to health

Contributors

Authors appearing in this issue

Paul Kershaw

Paul Kershaw

Dr. Paul Kershaw is a policy professor in the UBC School of Population Health where he leads the Masters of Public Health Program. He is the Founder of Get Well Canada, which is hosted at Generation Squeeze and funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research Project Grant Award Number AWD-022495 CIHR 2022.

Andrea Long

Andrea Long

Andrea Long is the senior director of research and knowledge mobilization at Generation Squeeze. Her work includes coordinating the Get Well Canada initiative hosted by Gen Squeeze, as part of the organization’s mandate to build a Canada that promotes well-being for all generations.

Bridget McCann

Bridget McCann

Bridget McCann is a second-year graduate student in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University. She is working on her thesis, which explores the relative importance of social to medical spending and health outcomes in different countries.

Daniel Dutton

Daniel Dutton

Daniel Dutton is an assistant professor at Dalhousie University’s Department of Community Health and Epidemiology.

Arman Hamidian

Arman Hamidian

Arman Hamidian is a consultant at Santis Health, a public affairs, strategic advisory, public policy, marketing and communication consultancy that is dedicated to the health care and life sciences sectors across the country.

Jonathan Heller

Jonathan Heller

Jonathan Heller is a visiting scholar with the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH) and a senior health equity fellow at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.

Myrianne Richard

Myrianne Richard

Myrianne Richard is a knowledge translation specialist with the NCCDH.

Sally McBride

Sally McBride

Sally McBride works at Vancouver Coastal Health.




Karen Rideout

Karen Rideout

Karen Rideout works at Vancouver Coastal Health.


Dr. Mark Lysyshyn

Dr. Mark Lysyshyn

Dr. Mark Lysyshyn works at Vancouver Coastal Health.


Craig Brown

Craig Brown

Craig Brown works at Vancouver Coastal Health.


Trish Hennessy

Trish Hennessy

Trish Hennessy (she/her) is a senior communications strategist with the CCPA national office and director of its Think Upstream project. She co-founded the CCPA’s national growing gap project and the CCPA’s Ontario office.