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• Some Gatineau patients face discrimination in ER, physicians allege

  Patients in Gatineau, Que., who have family doctors don't just have better access to routine medical care - they also get to jump the queue when they show up in the emergency room, a group of local emergency-room doctors is charging. Read More... Posted Nov 26 2008, 10:58 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Health Services, Equity

• Overcrowded, substandard housing persists among Inuit: StatsCan

  Canada's Inuit are 10 times more likely than non-aboriginal people to live in crowded homes, as they continue to cope with a serious housing shortage, according to new census figures released Wednesday. Read More... Posted Nov 26 2008, 08:08 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Society and Culture, Equity, Housing

• IV drug users unfairly excluded from needle program, CB group says

  A group set up to fight drug abuse in Cape Breton believes intravenous drug users are being unfairly excluded from a provincial program to safely collect used needles. Read More... Posted Nov 25 2008, 07:54 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Addiction, Equity, Disease Treatment

• Long-term Care Facilities Access Services Through Telehealth

  A pilot project is connecting three long-term care facilities through the province's Telehealth network to improve Nova Scotians' access to health-care services, announced Health Minister Chris d'Entremont today, April 9. Read More... Posted Apr 09 2008, 08:39 AM by Government of Nova Scotia News Releases - Health Filed under: Long-Term Care, Mobility and Access, Equity, Telehealth

• Reservists shortchanged by military health-care system: ombudsman

  Canadian reservists get far inferior health care than regular members of the military, a double standard that is unacceptable, the military ombudsman says. Read More... Posted Apr 03 2008, 08:21 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Workplace, Equity

• Obese women less likely to receive cancer screening: study

  Obese women are less likely than women of normal weight to receive recommended breast and cervical cancer screenings, a new study has found. Read More... Posted Mar 25 2008, 08:18 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Cancer, Diagnostic Testing, Equity, Gender, Obesity, Disease Prevention

• Seniors needing ER care left in nursing home beds: AMA

  Elderly patients who need emergency hospital care are often turned away from packed ERs and left to be treated in nursing homes, according to a seniors advocate and the president of the Alberta Medical Association. Read More... Posted Mar 19 2008, 11:12 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Seniors, Equity, Emergency Services

• Knee surgery study points to gender bias

  Women complaining of knee pain are less likely than men to be recommended for total knee replacement surgery, a study in Monday's issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal suggests. Read More... Posted Mar 10 2008, 05:26 PM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Surgery, Equity, Gender, Injury Treatment

• Same-sex partners to be recognized as next of kin in N.B. hospitals

  Hospitals in New Brunswick will now accept same-sex partners as next of kin following the resolution of a human rights complaint. Read More... Posted Mar 03 2008, 10:09 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Health Services, Legal, Equity

• No special home-care help for elderly St. John's couple

  The Newfoundland and Labrador government will not bend rules that it admits are unfair to help an ailing St. John's couple. Read More... Posted Feb 21 2008, 01:45 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Seniors, Equity, Housing

• HMP no place to be mentally ill: lawyer

  Conditions at the largest jail in Newfoundland and Labrador are terrible for inmates who suffer from mental problems, advocates say. Read More... Posted Feb 07 2008, 06:03 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Society and Culture, Mental Health, Health Services, Equity

• Pathologist says parents' social status never coloured autopsy work

  Pathologist Charles Smith told an Ontario inquiry into his botched child autopsies that his findings were never affected by investigators' comments about parents' economic or social status. Read More... Posted Feb 01 2008, 07:32 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Economic Factors, Health Services, Equity

• Judge probed for insisting HIV-positive witness wear a mask

  An Ontario judge is under investigation for insisting a witness who is HIV-positive and has hepatitis C wear a mask in his courtroom. Read More... Posted Jan 31 2008, 04:37 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: HIV, Equity, Hepatitis

• Health Canada clarifies organ donation policy

  Sexually active gay men, injection drug users and other groups considered high risk can donate organs, but only if authorized by recipients, Health Canada says. Read More... Posted Jan 18 2008, 12:06 PM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Policy and Strategy, Equity, Organ Donation

• Prostate exam fees not sexist, human rights tribunal rules

  The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has rejected a claim by a Victoria man that the province's ministry of health discriminates against men in paying for cancer screening for women only. Read More... Posted Jan 18 2008, 06:31 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Cancer, Equity, Gender, Reproduction, Prostate

• Minister Clement Announces Initiatives to Improve the Health of Inuit at the First-ever Inuit Health Summit in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik

  Read More... Posted Jan 16 2008, 03:05 PM by Canada News Centre Filed under: Society and Culture, Policy and Strategy, Equity

• Government of Canada Funds Groundbreaking First Nations Public Health Initiative

  Read More... Posted Jan 10 2008, 02:35 PM by Canada News Centre Filed under: Society and Culture, Equity, Funding

• Dialysis on wheels brings treatment to rural patients

  Some dialysis patients in rural Alberta will no longer have to spend hours on the road driving to Edmonton for their treatment three times a week, thanks to a new mobile unit. Read More... Posted Jan 09 2008, 10:34 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Health Services, Mobility and Access, Equity, Organizational Change, Disease Treatment, Urological Conditions

• Sexually active gay men no longer allowed to donate organs

  A number of organ donation groups said Monday that they are unaware of new Health Canada regulations that mean sexually active gay men, injection drug users and other groups considered high risk will no longer be accepted as organ donors. Read More..... Posted Jan 07 2008, 05:08 PM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Lifestyle and Behaviour, Policy and Strategy, Equity, Organ Donation

• Obese people wait longer for kidney transplants, study finds

  Very obese people who need a kidney transplant are far less likely to get one than people of normal weight, a new U.S. study finds. Read More... Posted Dec 20 2007, 06:33 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Health Services, Surgery, Equity, Obesity

• Cancer report shows disparities between developing, developed countries

  There will be more than 12 million new cancer cases and 7.6 million cancer deaths worldwide in 2007, the majority in developing countries, a new report says. Read More... Posted Dec 17 2007, 07:18 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Society and Culture, Cancer, Equity

• Canada must act on chronic health conditions, report warns

  Canadians with chronic health conditions generally wait longer to see doctors and end up in emergency rooms more often than their counterparts in five other countries in a survey released Thursday. Read More... Posted Dec 13 2007, 10:23 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Healthcare Systems, Health Services, Policy and Strategy, Equity, Disease Prevention

• Twenty years since Ottawa and Epp: researchers' reflections on challenges, gains and future prospects for reducing health inequities in Canada

  November 2006 marked the 20-year anniversary of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and Canada's Epp Report. Encapsulating the tenets of health promotion (HP), these publications articulated a vision for reducing health inequities, and described... Posted Nov 19 2007, 12:00 AM by Health Promotion International - recent issues Filed under: Equity

• Older women treated differently than men in hospital: study

  Older women are much less likely to be admitted to intensive care units and to receive certain medical procedures than men, an Ontario study reveals. Read More... Posted Nov 15 2007, 10:07 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Health Services, Equity, Gender

• Food packets could save many starving children, group says

  Even when foreign aid reaches starving children, the food that fills their stomachs may not be nutritious enough to save them from disease and death, a Paris-based humanitarian group says. Read More... Posted Oct 10 2007, 10:12 AM by CBC | Health News Filed under: Economic Factors, Society and Culture, Youth, Equity, Nutrition, Disease Prevention, Poverty

• More Affordable Housing Announced for Cape Breton Residents

  Cape Breton residents will soon have access to more affordable housing in Sydney, North Sydney and Sydney Mines. Through the Canada-Nova Scotia Affordable Housing Agreement, 130 units of affordable housing for families, singles, seniors and people with... Posted Oct 05 2007, 11:34 AM by Government of Nova Scotia News Releases - Community Services Filed under: Economic Factors, Seniors, Equity, Special Needs, Housing