Prioritize disadvantaged people for primary care and screening access, report says – TVO Today
Sep 26, 2023
A panel of doctors, nurses, and patients came up with 15 recommendations that health-care providers could use to help address barriers to care
TORONTO — A panel of doctors, nurses, and patients from across Canada has issued recommendations on how to make health care more equitable for disadvantaged people.
In a paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday, the panel came up with 15 disease-prevention and screening recommendations that health-care providers could use to help address barriers to care.
“There are known inequities that could be addressed by interventions like cancer screening (and) screening for cardiovascular disease,” said lead author Dr. Nav Persaud, who is the Canada Research Chair in Health Justice and a family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital.
“Our approach was not to just bemoan these inequities, but to ask, ‘What can we do to address them?'”
