The Healthcare Divide

Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Antica Productions
  • 4.7 (24)
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The Healthcare Divide

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.

Episodes

  1. 2023-12-20

    Two Worlds of Medicine

    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

    40 min

  2. 2023-12-13

    Front and Centre: Filipino Healthcare Workers and COVID

    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

    36 min

  3. 2023-12-06

    Uninsured: How Universal is Canada’s Healthcare System?

    The Healthcare Divide

    43 min

  4. 2023-11-29

    The Inuit Battle Against TB

    In the mid-twentieth century, Inuit diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) were taken from their communities and sent to sanitoriums in southern Canada. Many never returned, and their families never learned what happened to them. We explore this crisis and how this history has continued to affect those communities, and why even today, TB rates remain 300 times higher there than in the rest of Canada. Voices in this episode: Louassee Kuniliusee, tuberculosis survivor Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami Beatrice Ikkidlua, daughter of tuberculosis survivor

    38 min

  5. 2023-11-22

    The Digital Therapist

    Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing the healthcare industry. While it’s creating new opportunities for treatment, there are ongoing concerns with the ways AI perpetuates and amplifies bias. We explore the promises and the perils of this emerging technology in the mental health field with the creators of the Mind-Easy app and a digital health researcher.

    30 min

  6. 2023-11-15

    Deadly Assumptions

    A decades-old decision created a system where Black Canadians need to be sicker than the rest of the population to qualify for a living kidney donor transplant. How did this happen? And why does it persist today if science doesn’t support it? Voices in this episode: Charles Cook, donor recipient Lydia-Joi Marshall, project lead at the Health Commons Solutions Lab and President of the Black Health Alliance Dr. Bourne Auguste, nephrologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    32 min

  7. 2023-11-07

    Welcome to The Healthcare Divide

    The Healthcare Divide is a new podcast that exposes uncomfortable truths, troubling realities and innovative efforts to overcome racism in Canada’s healthcare system. Our first episode comes out on November 15th.

    2 min

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Ratings & Reviews

4.7
out of 5
24 Ratings

About

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.

Information

  • Creator
    Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Antica Productions
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    7
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2023
  • Show Website
    The Healthcare Divide

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