Dr. AJ is a Halifax family physician and assistant professor at Dalhousie University’s faculty of medicine. Today she begins a regular column for The Chronicle Herald which will explore health care reform with the aim of engaging Nova Scotians in finding ways to improve individual and population health, provide satisfying and high-quality care and build thriving health-care networks.
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Podcast Column 19 Understanding The Impact Of Trauma On Humans
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Podcast Column 18 Substance Use , Misuse And Addiction
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Domino Thirteen: What Supports The Health Of Individuals And Their Communities?
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Domino Twelve: How did we arrive here? Understanding the impact of the Flexner report.
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Domino Twelve: How did we arrive here? Understanding the impact of the Flexner report. by Dr. Ajantha JayabarathanBy Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan
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Our Understanding Of What Heals by Dr. Ajantha JayabarathanBy Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan
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Podcast Column 11 Lessons Learned With E - Health Innovation Part III
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Domino Eight: Lessons learned with e-health innovation in primary care
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Domino Seven: Reforming Primary Care in Nova ScotiaBy Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan
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Podcast Column 6 Medicare And Economics Of Small Business
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Dr. AJ Peeling Through Layers Of The Health Onion
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Domino four: Supply, demand, sustaining the workforce and peeling through layers of the health onion.By Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan
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Headlines are created from “stunning” declarations such as this, when in reality, citizens in the province have been struggling to find a family doctor and experience long wait times for specialist services. Clearly the headlines and the numbers alone are not telling the whole story.Let us go to the source of the numbers in this report and dissect …
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We are familiar with the call for cuts to health-care funding by provincial and federal governments.During 2003-2009, the real average growth rate per capita for health spending in Canada was 3.15 per cent, as per OECD health data. That rise was faster than the nation’s economic growth.By Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan
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Episode 3 -We Should Match Health Care With Patterns Of Patient Use
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Primary care, secondary care, tertiary care, quaternary care: these labels group our available health services, to match investigations and treatments with the severity and complexity of health conditions.Primary care refers to prevention and promotion activities, care by family doctors, nurse practitioners, family practice nurses, pharmacists, phy…
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Episode 2 - Where’s The Health Relief For Stricken Cape Breton
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At present, Nova Scotia Health Authority is well aware of the devastating loss of family doctors and specialists from Cape Breton, since 2012, that has left thousands without access to primary care services.A recent count showed 30 physicians have left since the summer and 60 physician positions are under threat.…
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What people universally expect is to have access to doctors, pharmacists, mental health and physical therapists when they feel ill or have been injured.They expect tests will be done, diagnoses made, treatment started and that they will return to good health.By Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan
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