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“Prescribing Income” Seminar at University of Manitoba

Health Providers Against Poverty Founder, Dr. Gary Bloch, will be presenting Prescribing Income: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Mobilizing Doctors to Treat Poverty at the University of Manitoba on November 23, 2015. His idea that health care providers should prescribe money to people with low income as an important health intervention ignited action by HPAP 10 years ago. Now, a […]

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Join the OCFP Poverty & Health Community of Practice for Family Physicians

The Ontario College of Family Physician’s Poverty & Health Committee has launched a Community of Practice (CoP), a network of family physicians committed to addressing poverty in clinical practice. The CoP’s primary objective is to facilitate the exchange of poverty and health resources and best practices.  We will communicate through an e-mail list serve and will endeavor […]

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Media Advisory: Health Care Leaders Call on Government to Fix Ontario’s Sick Day Policies

November 3, 2015 Media Advisory: With the Start of the Flu Season Health Care Leaders Call on Wynne Government to Fix Ontario’s Sick Day Policies TORONTO – Marketwired – Nov. 3, 2015 – Representatives from Health Providers Against Poverty and the Association of Ontario Health Centres will hold a press conference at Queen’s Park on Thursday, November 5 […]