Tag: Homeless
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Toronto City Budget Cuts Harmful To Health
The 2017 City of Toronto budget will be finalized in February and HPAP members are concerned about the negative health impacts of the proposed budget cuts. Drs. Shaurya Taran and Naheed Dosani’s Toronto Star editorial highlights the disproportionate impact of city budget cuts on those who are most vulnerable. On Thursday January 10, several HPAP members attended a budget committee meeting and […]
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Op-Ed: Poverty Impacts Health in Rural Ontario
The erosion of social assistance rates, rise in precarious employment, increasing costs of living, colonization, and systemic racism all contribute to poverty in Ontario. This has a significant and detrimental impact on health, particularly in parts of the province where there is inequitable access to health care. HPAP member and family physician, Katie Dorman, writes about this in […]
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HPAP Joins Release of Out of The Cold Report
On February 17, HPAP members joined the OCAP for the public release of their recent report Out In The Cold: The Crisis in Toronto’s Shelter System. Dr. Mike Benusic’s message: “I’m representing Health Providers Against Poverty. We are a group of health care workers – nurses, doctors, social workers, occupational therapists, etc – who work directly with […]
Health Providers Against Poverty 