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Primary Health Care (PHC) is often described as the foundation of the health care system. As quoted from the Nova Scotia Health Authority...

This week we were asked to curate resources on the future of health and health care in Canada. Nova Scotia is in a crisis when it comes...

Driving to work early morning through Halifax, it is evident that the need to support homelessness in Nova Scotia (NS) remains. The...

This is a comparison of the Prevalence, surveillance, management and funding of chronic disease between Nova Scotia and Ontario....

For many years, how best to define health has been explored and debated. Many definitions have been suggested as the population changes...

Over 3 million Canadians of all ages have a serious respiratory disease such as asthma, COPD, Lung Cancer, Cystic fibrosis, TB and...

For many years now, how to define health has been researched and debated. Many definitions have been suggested as the population changes,...

In my MHST601 course we were tasked with completing a comparison between two provinces on differences in how health priorities are...

Canada is often viewed as a leader in population health. Looking back at the history of health care in Canada it can be recognized that...

In 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), defined health as, “as a state of complete physical, mental and social...