Canadian Health Information Podcast
Listen to the Canadian Health Information Podcast (CHIP) for in-depth conversations about Canada’s health systems, featuring people and data you can trust. Host Avis Favaro will speak to the people behind the health policy and data, as well as to those working hard on the front lines, and discuss the work being done to keep Canadians healthy.
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Going the Distance
28 min | Published April 8, 2025
How far do you have to travel for health care? Down the street? To a hospital in another town? How about to an entirely different province? A new CIHI report shows that 1 in 11 people admitted to hospital in Canada have what’s called a high travel burden. Meaning there’s no clinic, no hospital — sometimes not even roads to get to the medical care they need. In this episode, we meet Paula Alorut, an Inuit mother of 5 from Nunavut who travels over 2,000 kilometres to Ottawa to get medical care for her son. And Dr. Radha Jetty, who runs a special clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario for kids from Nunavut with medically complex needs and their families.
This episode is available in English.
Previous episodes
Dr. Manners: Operating Room Etiquette
Listen as Avis Favaro speaks with UHN’s Dr. Carol-Anne Moulton about designing systems to promote teamwork and open communication in the operating room.
The Hidden Killer: How a Canadian Teen Lost Her Limbs and Gained a Mission
Host Avis Favaro speaks to a young sepsis survivor who lost limbs to the condition and a doctor working to help health teams identify and treat this deadly medical emergency.
Nowhere Else to Go: Why Canadians Are Ending Up in Emergency Departments — Shelley Petit and Dr. Howard Ovens
Where do people go for medical care if they don’t have a family doctor or walk-in clinic? New CIHI data points to a crisis in primary care. Learn more about what the numbers tell us about Canadians with nowhere to go.
How to cite:
Canadian Institute for Health Information. Canadian Health Information Podcast . Accessed April 25, 2025.
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