{"id":4273,"date":"2015-08-18T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2015-08-24T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:21:17","slug":"the-importance-of-health-care-in-the-federal-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-importance-of-health-care-in-the-federal-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of health care in the federal election<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the upcoming federal election, health care must be a key issue otherwise Canada\u2019s health care problems will continue, according an editorial in the\u00a0Canadian\u00a0Medical Association Journal. Additionally the editorial calls on federal political parties to articulate clear policy platforms on health care.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Editor of the CMAJ, Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, says \u201cthe federal government has walked away from collaborating with the provinces through the Council of the Federation and declined to renew the First Ministers\u2019 Accord on Health Care\u201d over the previous decade.<\/p>\n<p>The paper provides several examples of negative action, such as tying research support to business interests rather than health benefits, as well as examples of inaction on the part of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/early\/2015\/08\/17\/cmaj.150896\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0the <em>CMAJ\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>August 17<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Matthew B. Stanbrook, Deputy Editor, Canadian Medical Association\u00a0Journal<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the upcoming federal election, health care must be a key issue otherwise Canada\u2019s health care problems will continue, according an editorial in the\u00a0Canadian\u00a0Medical Association Journal. Additionally the editorial calls on federal political parties to articulate clear policy platforms on health care. The Deputy Editor of the CMAJ, Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, says \u201cthe federal government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[869,2208,53,2188,476],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-canada-en","tag-health-care","tag-medicine","tag-politics","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-16V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4274,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions\/4274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}