Inner City Children’s Vision Is Being Left Behind

 Why Ontario needs a universal vision screening program for preschool children By Anand Bery and Wynn Peterson We can remember many of them, leaning forward, almost off their tiny kindergarten-sized chairs, squinting with one eye to try and make out a rather large 'H’ or ‘O’ on a chart across

Four Things We Can Do to Improve Healthcare in Canada

 What’s next for primary care? Healthcare is the purview of the provinces in Canada, but health leadership–setting big picture goals, helping achieve best practices across the country and providing long-term, sustainable funding models–is the role of the federal government. As the federal election campaign wages, Canadians should be pressing federal

Thousands of Lives Could be Saved by Improving our Health Care System

 Not all health regions should receive equal funding When a health care system cannot make the best use of resources at its disposal, consequences can be dire, and such is the case with the Canadian health system.  A recent study from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) found that