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Nunavik: Demands for health network to be put under trusteeship

Julie Marceau, Radio-Canada @julie_marceau
Posted: Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 18:23 — Last Updated: Monday, November 21, 2022 at 08:24
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“We’re not sinking: we’re sunk.” A worker shortage, coupled with poor management of the Nunavik health care system, is creating

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Burnout, Indigenous reconciliation on agenda of new Yukon Medical Association pres.

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 09:11
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Dr. Alex Kmet took on new role after the association’s annual general meeting last weekend The new head of the

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Pangnirtung health centre in northern Canada will be closed next month due to staff shortages

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 16:18
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The health centre in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, will be temporarily closed next month for about one week, according to the Department of

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New Inuit health module being developed at Montreal’s McGill University

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 08:44
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Developing an Inuit health module for family medicine courses will be one of the priorities of the new Associate Professor

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Hospital wards across Finland clogged with “unnecessary patients”

Yle News
Posted: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 16:18 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 10:06
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Senior physicians at five major central hospitals in Finland have issued a “wake-up call” on the issue of congestion in

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Alaska’s heroin problem brings together state, local and federal leaders in search of a solution

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 15:44
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BETHEL — Alaska’s heroin problem is significant, growing and, authorities say, in need of attention from all quarters to get under

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Suicide rates in the world's circumpolar communities remain several times higher than their southern counterparts. (iStock)
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Majority of depression sufferers don’t get therapy in Finland; drugs more readily prescribed

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 16:32 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 21:36
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About 430,000 Finns were taking prescription anti-depressants in 2013. Yet many Finns are left with their depression untreated as they

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Pediatric Resident Dr. Eric Foote meets with a family at LaTouche Pediatrics in Anchorage. (Annie Feidt / APRN – Anchorage)
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Program to recruit pediatricians to Alaska

APRN
Posted: Friday, July 5, 2013 at 10:18 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 13:38
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Four pediatric residents got their first taste of Alaskan style medicine this spring. It’s part of a new partnership based

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