Health committee  I'll make one quick comment. The Ontario government did put resources into creating nurse practitioners. Most of those nurse practitioners, who they were hoping would go to rural and small town communities, stayed in the largest urban areas and, generally speaking, practice in

Health committee  I think the value-added that needs to be worked on is getting the provinces to accept these best-practice models and diffusing them through their systems. I think there is a tremendous effort going on in organizations like CIHR to disseminate research findings, but I think the pr

Health committee  I certainly think community health centres have a greater role to play, particularly in those provinces that have been slow to take them up. I hate to come back to this basic point: you can create a building in your community and call it a community health centre, but if you c

Health committee  I would just make one quick comment, and that is that the supply of health care professionals is really a function of decisions that are made by provincial governments with respect to the resources they wish to spend on their university and college systems. The other issue is ind

Health committee  I'll make a couple of brief comments. As one of my colleagues here alluded to—I think it was Dr. Reichman—the issue of obesity in this country or the issue of poor diets I think is not unique to the aboriginal population. I think it really is a crisis across all groups. In truth

Health committee  Certainly my colleagues here on the panel probably could offer as many examples as I can. The work we have been doing on volunteers I think is both a good news story and a bad news story. The good news story is that, particularly in the older population, older persons are perhaps

Health committee  Thank you. Madam Chair, honourable members, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today about the older population of Canada and chronic diseases. Some of you might be asking yourselves why a professor of geography, who's also cross-appointed as a professor in community

Health committee  I'm going to answer it. In 1989 my colleagues from Queen's and I produced the first atlas of the elderly population, funded by Health and Welfare Canada's review of demography and its implications for economic and social policy, better known to some of you as the Demographic Rev