Our health and social service systems are under immense strain.
Many people are slipping through the cracks.
Emergency Departments (EDs) in Canada often operate over-capacity and are under significant pressures, leading to rationing of care. In this context, such rationing can be based on social judgements, discrimination and untested assumptions. Consequently, certain groups of people experience inadequate and inequitable treatment in EDs, including Indigenous people, racialized newcomers, people with mental illness, those living in unstable housing or facing homelessness, experiencing interpersonal violence or using substances, and people involved in sex work.
This project, which builds on insights from EQUIP Primary Health Care, is studying the feasibility, process, and impact of implementing an evidence-informed framework for interventions to improve the capacity of Emergency Departments to provide high-quality care to people at greatest risk of experiencing health and health care inequities.
CREDITS
Script: Miriam Mortimer
Voice Over: Wanda G Rush
Music : Playdate Audio
Design and Animation: Kunal Sen
Produced by Good Bad Habits
Research Leads: Colleen Varcoe, Annette Browne, Vicky Bungay, Erin Wilson, Nadine Wathen
Research Manager: Cheyanne Stones
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