The Healthcare Divide

By: Canadian Race Relations Foundation Antica Productions
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  • Summary

  • Universal healthcare is supposed to mean that everyone gets equitable access, treatment and care. But do we really? From the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and hosted by Dr. Alika Lafontaine, The Healthcare Divide is a new podcast that exposes uncomfortable truths, troubling realities and innovative efforts to overcome racism in Canada’s healthcare system. Patients, healthcare workers and medical experts weigh in on everything from experiences of harm to grassroots care movements, policy change, and explorations of artificial intelligence to bridge the divide with real stories, data-driven insights, and expert interviews that expose the cracks in the system. The Healthcare Divide is produced by Antica Productions and Makwa Creative. The podcast was made possible by support from Pfizer Canada.
    2023
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Episodes
  • Two Worlds of Medicine

    Two Worlds of Medicine
    Dec 20 2023
    How do you bring together two philosophies of medicine: Indigenous and Western? And is that even the right question to ask? We talk to two doctors who are re-imaging ways for Canada’s healthcare system to work better for Indigenous patients. They talk about their hard won successes and the challenges they faced along the way. Voices in this episode: Dr. Danièle Behn Smith, British Columbia’s Deputy Provincial Health Officer for Indigenous Health Dr. Barry Lavallee, CEO of Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin
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    40 mins
  • Front and Centre: Filipino Healthcare Workers and COVID

    Front and Centre: Filipino Healthcare Workers and COVID
    Dec 13 2023
    Filipino migrants make up a critical portion of Canada’s healthcare workforce, as nurses and care aides. They also have one of the lowest average employment incomes among groups designated as visible minorities. Conditions such as low wages and precarious migrant status were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine what that crisis revealed about labour in Canada’s healthcare system. Voices in this episode: Dolie Anne Bulalakaw, assisted living worker Valerie Damasco, assistant professor of sociology at Trent University. Ethel Tungohan, associate professor of politics at York University
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    36 mins
  • Uninsured: How Universal is Canada’s Healthcare System?

    Uninsured: How Universal is Canada’s Healthcare System?
    Dec 6 2023

    Hundreds of thousands of people are living in Canada without health coverage, according to one estimate. So what happens when those people get sick, or hurt, or pregnant? We touch down at Doctors of the World’s Montreal clinic, to get an idea of what it’s like for migrants living in Canada without health insurance.

     

    Voices in this episode:

    Penelope Boudreault, director of national operations and strategic development, Médecins du Monde Canada

    Thatiana Hernandez

    Dr. Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, family doctor

     

     
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    43 mins

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