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Why does it take a crisis to understand that health workers are our health system?

Now more than ever we need to show our valuable health workers our support by explicitly including them in the capacity planning equation, and implementing protective policies and practices. Otherwise, we’re left with one hand clapping.

Opinion
BY IVY BOURGEAULT, SARAH SIMKIN, AND CAROLINE CHAMBERLAND-ROWE
April 27, 2020

Opinion | BY IVY BOURGEAULT, SARAH SIMKIN, AND CAROLINE CHAMBERLAND-ROWE | April 27, 2020

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Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Carolyn Bennett, and Seniors Minister Kamal Khera, pictured March 25, 2022, making a health funding announcement in Ottawa. The pandemic has caused remarkable increases in rates of burnout and other mental health concerns, already prevalent among nurses and doctors before the pandemic, due to health and safety concerns and unsustainable workloads. Health workers have faced 16-plus hour days, cancelled vacations and forced redeployment, writes Ivy Lynn Bourgeault. *The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia*

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Time to fix the inequity in Canadian research council grants

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Canadians are concerned about the mental health of health workers; they should be

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Why does it take a crisis to understand that health workers are our health system?

Now more than ever we need to show our valuable health workers our support by explicitly including them in the capacity planning equation, and implementing protective policies and practices. Otherwise, we’re left with one hand clapping.

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