Opinion: Good health outcomes require adequate social investments, a fact many doctors try to address when they want to (but can’t) prescribe poverty reduction, child care and housing.
Canadians know the status quo isn’t working when it comes to medical care. Recent polls suggest these concerns may dominate this week’s federal Liberal caucus retreat. Alas, intergovernmental negotiations so far miss the mark on the “innovation” required to disrupt this dysfunctional system.
Hospitals and clinics should be the last stops for health, not the first. The first stops are in our neighbourhoods, jobs, child care centres, and schools — something COVID made painfully clear. Good health outcomes require adequate social investments, a fact many doctors try to address when they want to prescribe poverty reduction, child care and housing.
According to health science, federal Liberal investments in child care, housing, poverty reduction, and climate action ARE investments in health. Federal leadership has been necessary because provinces have been retreating from investing in the social conditions that shape health and well-being. Any additional federal transfers for health ought to encourage provinces to achieve a better balance in their social and medical spending in order to promote health.
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