Mental health and illnesses are a population health issue

The government has heeded the call for pharmacare and dental care, which fall outside the Canada Health Act. Mental health care is the obvious third leg of the stool.
The first iteration of Wellness Together Canada, funded through emergency federal dollars, ceased on April 3, 2024, yet the urgent need it filled remains, writes Louise Bradley, board chair of Stepped Care Solutions.

In the eye of the COVID storm, with the population's mental health in free-fall, the federal government acted with unprecedented foresight to sponsor a virtual, truly universal, mental health safety net made up of Canada’s leading mental-health innovators.

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