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Each school year, I teach a unit called “Abilities Awareness”. Making students aware of each other’s different abilities helps us become better citizens and leads to a more positive and inclusive school climate. This awareness leads to empathy and a deeper understanding of our peers’ individual learning needs resulting in a sense of belonging, community, and value in our school community. This unit is also an opportunity to address misconceptions surrounding different disabilities. In the words of Winston Churchill, “Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.”
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The Vancouver Aboriginal Health Society (VAHS), along with the First Nations Aboriginal Primary Care Network, launched a women’s mobile primary care program in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) on Wednesday.
“We are happy to have this up and running, this van is really important to us,” said Rosemary Stager-Wallace, VAHS executive director, at a press conference.
“It is going to bring primary care to the Downtown Eastside to some of our most vulnerable women.”
Stager-Wallace said the program will provide wraparound low-barrier access care with knowledge keepers, elders and healers
Apr. 1—US Sen. Sherrod Brown visited Hamilton Friday to hold a roundtable discussion with a group of veterans to hear their concerns about health care and disability benefits in the wake of the PACT Act that passed last year.
Democrats Brown and US Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, who is a veteran pilot who lost her legs in a helicopter crash in Iraq, invited a small group of Butler County veterans to discuss health care and disability benefits for those who have been harmed by toxic exposure. Veterans are now eligible for these benefits due to the Promise to Address
Quebec’s sweeping new health-care plan—Bills 15—drew a mixed reaction following its announcement Wednesday.
Several health-care professionals say it’s a massive undertaking—especially for a health minister who initially said he didn’t want reform.
“Big reforms tend to have a very destabilizing effect, and we need a clear implementation plan. [We] can’t be told, ‘do this and figure it out,'” said Natalie Stake-Doucet, past president of the Quebec Nurses Association.
“It has to be clear how this is going to take place, how these changes are going to be made step by step.”
The bill aims to create
The Yukon Yoyukuk School District joined with the Area Health Education Center to host a health care camp running from Saturday to Thursday.
Seven high-school students are spending the week learning about different therapies, mental illness, resilience and career paths within the field.
Attempts to reform Canada’s health-care system — particularly when it comes to primary care — are nothing new.
Ten years ago, dr. Monica Aggarwal, a professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, first listed a series of features she believes should characterize high-performing primary health-care systems in Canada and similar countries.
Some points Aggarwal outlined had been in the works for years before she looked into the subject. But she says actual implementation was spotty at best. By 2022, she told CBC News in a recent interview, that was still the case.
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Democrats in Republican-led state legislatures are adding the filibuster to their toolkit when it comes to combating legislation targeting LGBTQ rights.
Floor action in the Missouri Senate last week came to a screeching halt as a band of Democratic state senators filibustered for two straight days a bill to bar transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming health care, causing frustrated Republican leadership to adjourn for a scheduled spring break a full day early.
In Nebraska last week, state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, one of the legislature’s only Democrats, entered the third week of her filibuster over proposed legislation to ban gender-affirming health
The First Trust Health Care AlphaDEX ETF (FXH) was launched on 05/08/2007, and is a smart beta exchange traded fund designed to offer broad exposure to the Health Care ETFs category of the market.
What Are Smart Beta ETFs?
The ETF industry has long been dominated by products based on market cap weighted indexes, a strategy created to reflect the market or a particular market segment.
Market cap weighted indexes offer a low-cost, convenient, and transparent way of replicating market returns, and are a good option for investors who believe in market efficiency.
However, there are some investors who would
