Saying more change is needed to help Canada’s low income residents, the new president of the Canadian Medical Association is offering some solutions to cutting overall costs, without spending any more money.
“Health care is only one element in getting a healthy population and probably not the most significant.”
Doctor John Haggie says Canada’s poor need better access to education, healthy food and exercise.
“Are there enough open spaces, sidewalks that can allow people a low-cost healthy option of walking to work or biking to work? If you don’t look at policy decisions to say, ‘well, how is it going to affect health and what do we do to mitigate it?’ The whole thing becomes a matter of chance.”
Speaking on the CKNW Morning News, Haggie adds the gap between low and higher income canadians has grown significantly over the past three years.
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