Dr. Naheed Dosani still remembers Terry, the man who inspired his passion to improve palliative care for homeless people.

There is a growing international movement, supported by the World Health Organization, toward "Health in all Policies," an approach that has been adopted by governments around the world. Here in Canada, Quebec has such a policy, and Newfoundland and Labrador is currently exploring this model.

"Health is already 100% of the budget." Upstream founder Ryan Meili explores the importance of looking to what the data show us are the real sources of health, and how we can rethink social spending not as costs, but investments. Ryan discusses the strengths of upstream thinking, and the strength of the Upstream organization: the use of human health as a measure of our success as a society, and the application of the ideas of the social determinants of health to public policy, appeals beyond political lines to common values. "We're not the movement. The movement is out there." Ryan's book A Healthy Society takes the evidential foundations of what really makes us sick, and fleshes out the data with captivating and relatable patient stories and personal experience as an inner city physician, as well as lessons he learned working in Mozambique and rural Saskatchewan: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/189583063X Closing the Gap: Action for Health Equity | April 3, 2016 | Canadian War Museum, Ottawa.

"Health is the mother of everything, and the determinants of who we are as a society... if we don't pay attention to health, we'll miss the cracks in the foundation." Health Minister Jane Philpott is the first medical doctor to hold her position, and fundamentally understands the social and economic sources of our health outcomes. Most encouragingly, she welcomes challenges put forward to her and the rest of our leadership to keep the upstream sources of well-being at the center of our political conversation: "Keep the pressure on me." Closing the Gap: Action for Health Equity | April 3, 2016 | Canadian War Museum, Ottawa.

In a landmark advisory opinion on Wednesday, the United Nations' top court said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate ch...

A presentation being delivered today at the College of Family Physicians Family Medicine Conference is focusing on determinants of health that have been overlooked in the past.

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With all the high-profile cuts contained in the recent provincial budget, financial implications for mental health supports have gone almost unnoticed.

Courtney Howard and Ryan Meili

Out with the coal, in with the new. New report on a #CleanGrowthCentury in Canada

All of us have colleagues who come to work even when they're under the weather. They do it enough that there’s a word for it: presenteeism.

This is the final of 4 articles on social accountability in family medicine and the role of family doctors in advocating for health equity. Previously, we described the scope of social accountability,[1][1] actions that can be taken at the micro level to address the needs of individual patients or