Ottawa needs to establish infrastructure for tracking health data

We lack data about the scope of work of health care workers, about the diversity of the workforce, such as Indigenous or racial identity and language of service

Health Minister Patty Hajdu and the her ministerial colleagues could create a dedicated health workforce agency akin to the Public Health Agency of Canada, with an explicit mandate to significantly enhance existing health workforce data infrastructure in Canada.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DR. IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT AND LINDA SILAS

May 5, 2021

Canada’s health workers have been here for all of us throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It is time for us to be there for them. That’s why more than 200 associations, health care unions, networks, educators, and researchers a...

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