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“We want Ontario to be the healthiest place in North America to grow up and grow old.” The Hon. Deb Matthews Ontario’s Minister of Health and Long-Term Care has a plan.
Essays
Can Canadians Learn From Rob Ford’s Weight Loss Journey? Arya M. Sharma, MD, PhD
Off the Cuff
There is overwhelming evidence that social factors have profound influences on health. Neal Halfon et al
Canadian Government’s new initiatives for research on physical activity and childhood obesity …
Weight Gain at Five Years of Age Contributes to Childhood Obesity …
Curbing Childhood Obesity: An F/P/T Framework for Action to Promote Healthy (PDF)
Stop Navel-Gazing, Learn From Healthcare Abroad: C.D. Howe Institute
Leapfrog Group announces annual top hospitals list (USA)
CHSRF viagra Mythbusters explores what health services fall into Canada’s medicare basket? Is it what Canadians want and expect? Does it reflect our core values?
Good time to take stock: This is year five of a five year plan from CIHI: Strategic Directions: 2008–2009 to 2011–2012 PDF
Featured article: brought to you by Baxter Canada: Healthcare-Associated Infections as Patient Safety Indicators
Recommended Reading
Healthcare Quarterly
Checklist to Meet Ethical and Legal Obligations to Critically Ill Patients at the End of Life
Robert W. Sibbald, Paula Chidwick, Mark Handelman and Andrew B. Cooper
Healthcare Papers
Physicians, Thou Shalt Ration: The Necessary Role of Bedside Rationing in Controlling Healthcare Costs
Peter A. Ubel
Nursing Leadership
Exploring Ethics in Practice: Creating Moral Community in Healthcare One Place at a Time
Sandra L. Scott, Patricia Marck and Sylvia Barton
Healthcare Policy
The Continuing Quest for Primary Healthcare Reform: Measuring Performance
Jack Williams
Electronic Healthcare
Computer-Based Risk Assessment: Evaluating Use in Primary Care
Gayle Halas, Alan Katz and Dean Jin
World Health and Population
Will They Stay or Will They Go? Putting Theory into Practice to Guide Effective Workforce Retention Mechanisms
Barbara Stilwell
News
York U Professor wins major award for contribution to field of psychotherapy
Canadian Health Policy Research – Many Voices, Much Complexity
Collaborative for Hospital Excellence, Canada Joins Verras Healthcare International; Changes Name to Verras Canada
Novari Health & Strata Health form Access to Care Alliance
Walnuts May Help Fight Prostate Cancer
RNAO welcomes doubling of nurse practitioners, and warns that the inadequate growth in RNs compromises Ontarians’ health
Conferences
- February 1, 2012: Toronto, ON. Hospital Associated Infection Surviellance: Tools and Strategies
- February 3-5, 2012: Toronto, ON. National Institute on Nursing Informatics.
- February 8, 2012: Webcast. FIPPA Case Managment
- February 13, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advanced Health Leadership Program – Rotman School of Management
- February 15, 2012; Montreal, QC. 2012 CEO Forum
- February 22, 2012: Toronto, ON. Fight or Flight? Resolving Conflict in the Professional Workplace
- February 23, 2012: Toronto, ON: Legal and Ethical Issues in End of Life Care: Making Appropriate Use of Care
- February 23-24, 2012: Toronto, ON. Patient, Family and Community Engagement – Conference and Workshop
- February 27, 2012: Toronto, ON: Leaders of Volunteers
- February 28-29, 2012: Vancouver BC. Will paying the piper change the tune? Promise and pitfalls of healthcare funding reform
- March 1-2, 2012: Vancouver BC. Mastering the Art and Science of Healthy Work Environments, QWQHC 6th Annual Summit
- March 2, 2012: Toronto ON. Executive Compensation
- March 29, 2012: Toronto, ON. Nurse Practitioners: Optimize Patients’ Access to Health Care
- April 2-4, 2012: Toronto, ON. Ontario Public Health Convention
- April 13-14, 2012: Ottawa , ON. CMA and CSPE Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership
- April 25-26, 2012: Toronto, ON. Conference for Administrative Professionals
- April 25-27, 2012: Toronto, ON. Advances in Health Informatics Conference – call for papers now open
- May 4-5, 2012: Toronto, ON. 2012 National Health Law Conference
- May 22-25, 2012: Toronto, ON. The Dorothy Wylie Nursing & Health Leaders Institute
- May 28, 2012: Montreal, QC. Appplied Research in Cancer Conference
- May 31-June 1, 2012: Toronto, ON. Second Annual National Nursing Executives Summit
- May 29-31, 2012: Montreal QC. Annual CAHSPR Conference – Call for Abstracts
- June 4-5, 2012: Halifax, NS. National Health Leadership Conference
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Transitions
Dr. Mark Taylor to Interim Chief of Professional Staff for Bluewater Health Sarnia, Ontario
Alan Torrie to Board Chair of The Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre
Jagoda Pike Steps Down as Chair of the Board of the Newly Merged Hospital The Credit Valley Hospital and Trillium Health Centre
Veronica Nelson to Chair of the Board for the Ontario Association of Medical Radiation Technologists
Colleen Keenan to Partner, Odgers Berndtson
Gerri Woodford to Partner, Odgers Berndtson
Sue Carruthers to President and CEO, Women’s College Hospital Foundation, Toronto ON
Elaine Campbell to President AstraZeneca Canada
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