From a care standpoint, we need to ensure that the tools or systems we have in place allow people with physical or cognitive impairments, or who live remotely, to access things like mammograms and Pap smears. We need to ensure that every community has access to mammogram tables that are adjustable for people who need to be in wheelchairs, and that there are lifts and people to do that. That's an inventory that could be done within health authorities across the country. There shouldn't be disparities because you have those impairments.
From a research perspective, our challenges have been that, like much research done in Canada and around the world, the people we end up including in studies are those who are best educated, most affluent, able to miss time from work and those kinds of things. We need to be able to fund studies that are more complex so that we can reach out to people in their first languages rather than the languages they acquire when they come to Canada, so that we can have study sites that are remote from academic centres that still allow us to collect information and address the barriers of underserved populations, so that we can figure out how to address their needs from a health care perspective. That really requires a concerted effort across all levels of funding.