Health outcomes: News and podcasts

Media release highlights recent data on changes in Canada’s health workforce including family physicians and other primary care providers.

In this episode of the CHIP, host Alya Niang is joined by a caregiver to discuss her personal experience of looking after a loved one with dementia.

In this episode of the CHIP, host Avis Favaro chats with a man who lost his foot to diabetes and a doctor whose new treatment offers hope to those faced with losing a limb to the disease.

This web story explores the importance of analyzing data from an equity perspective by examining CIHI’s Equity in diabetes care report as an example.

With an exodus of family doctors, 1 in 5 Canadians do not have direct access to primary care. Listen as host Avis Favaro speaks with Dr. Jane Philpott and Dr. Tara Kiran, who say they know how to turn this around — and that every Canadian has the right…

In this episode of the CHIP, we’ll hear about the complex health needs of the growing number of people who are unhoused and turning to hospitals for help, and how doctors are working toward solutions.

In this episode of the CHIP, we are joined by Dr. Elyse Pelletier, an emergency physician, and David Gagnon, a paramedic, to discuss the ongoing crisis gripping emergency departments across the country, the impact on workers and patients, and what’s…

In this episode of the CHIP, guest host Jeanie Lacroix speaks with Dr. Marcel Émond, certified emergency physician at the level-1 trauma centre of the CHU de Québec — Hôpital de l’Enfant-Jésus, about the risks of frailty.

On this episode of the CHIP, host Avis Favaro speaks with Dr. Kenneth Rockwood, clinical research professor of frailty and aging at Dalhousie University, about the risks of frailty.

In this episode of the CHIP, we discuss hospital harm and the overwhelming workload of health care workers across Canada.