Canadian Physician Demographics. 52% are family physicians; 48% are specialists of other disciplines. 39% (33,913) are aged 55 or older. 43% are female; 57% are male. Two-thirds (64%) of family physicians under age 35 are female. 75% graduated from a Canadian medical school, 22% graduated from a foreign medical school,Read More →
The Canada Health Act (CHA or the Act) is Canada’s federal legislation for publicly funded health care insurance. The Act sets out the primary objective of Canadian health care policy, which is “to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well-being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable accessRead More →
Number of Physicians by Province/Territory and Specialty, Canada,Read More →
What is the opioid crisis? The opioid crisis is a complex public health issue. There are many factors that led us to the significant increase in opioid-related overdoses today. Some of these factors include: high rates of opioid prescribing the emergence of strong synthetic opioids in the illegal drug supplyRead More →
Neurological conditions in Canada. The human brain is utterly baffling. A small organ weighing merely three pounds as an adult has the ability to control and shape a human’s life. Without it, there would be nothing. There are so many different functions… and with that, there are so many thingsRead More →