Ht-Logo-gigapixel-icon
Search
Close this search box.
Ht-Logo-gigapixel-icon
Search
Close this search box.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Canada’s Politics and Government News Source Since 1989
Latest Paper
Thursday, April 25, 2024 | Latest Paper
Subscribe Now

TRENDING:

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault is an expert adviser with EvidenceNetwork.ca, a professor in the Telfer School of Management and the CIHR chair in gender, work and health human resources at the University of Ottawa.

It’s time health-care workers learned how to work in teams

  • We need to reorganize the work of health-care workers to better use their expertise, reduce duplication, and enhance the co-ordination of care experienced outside
Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, IVY OANDASAN | February 14, 2024
No one practitioner can do it all because this no longer fits the reality of the kind of health issues people face today, write Ivy Bourgeault and Ivy Oandasan. Unsplash photograph by Luis Melendez

It’s time health-care workers learned how to work in teams

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, IVY OANDASAN | February 14, 2024
  • We need to reorganize the work of health-care workers to better use their expertise, reduce duplication, and enhance the co-ordination of care experienced outside

It’s time health-care workers learned how to work in teams

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, IVY OANDASAN | February 14, 2024
  • We need to reorganize the work of health-care workers to better use their expertise, reduce duplication, and enhance the co-ordination of care experienced outside
No one practitioner can do it all because this no longer fits the reality of the kind of health issues people face today, write Ivy Bourgeault and Ivy Oandasan. Unsplash photograph by Luis Melendez

Time to fix the inequity in Canadian research council grants

  • The federal government should overhaul Canada’s granting agencies with an equity lens for a healthier and more robust research ecosystem that would benefit everyone.
Opinion | BY JANET MANTLER, IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, NICOLE POWER | September 27, 2023
Scholars—many of whom are women, Indigenous, and people of colour—with new and innovative research or research at the boundaries are often overlooked, write Janet Mantler, Ivy Bourgeault, and Nicole Power. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Time to fix the inequity in Canadian research council grants

Opinion | BY JANET MANTLER, IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, NICOLE POWER | September 27, 2023
  • The federal government should overhaul Canada’s granting agencies with an equity lens for a healthier and more robust research ecosystem that would benefit everyone.

Time to fix the inequity in Canadian research council grants

Opinion | BY JANET MANTLER, IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, NICOLE POWER | September 27, 2023
  • The federal government should overhaul Canada’s granting agencies with an equity lens for a healthier and more robust research ecosystem that would benefit everyone.
Scholars—many of whom are women, Indigenous, and people of colour—with new and innovative research or research at the boundaries are often overlooked, write Janet Mantler, Ivy Bourgeault, and Nicole Power. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Canadians are concerned about the mental health of health workers; they should be

  • If the health workforce was a patient, it would be in critical condition. The public seems to get it. New results of a nation-wide
Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | April 25, 2022
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Carolyn Bennett, and Seniors Minister Kamal Khera, pictured March 25, 2022, making a health funding announcement in Ottawa. The pandemic has caused remarkable increases in rates of burnout and other mental health concerns, already prevalent among nurses and doctors before the pandemic, due to health and safety concerns and unsustainable workloads. Health workers have faced 16-plus hour days, cancelled vacations and forced redeployment, writes Ivy Lynn Bourgeault. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Canadians are concerned about the mental health of health workers; they should be

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | April 25, 2022
  • If the health workforce was a patient, it would be in critical condition. The public seems to get it. New results of a nation-wide

Canadians are concerned about the mental health of health workers; they should be

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | April 25, 2022
  • If the health workforce was a patient, it would be in critical condition. The public seems to get it. New results of a nation-wide
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Carolyn Bennett, and Seniors Minister Kamal Khera, pictured March 25, 2022, making a health funding announcement in Ottawa. The pandemic has caused remarkable increases in rates of burnout and other mental health concerns, already prevalent among nurses and doctors before the pandemic, due to health and safety concerns and unsustainable workloads. Health workers have faced 16-plus hour days, cancelled vacations and forced redeployment, writes Ivy Lynn Bourgeault. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Pandemic exposing critical gaps in health workforce planning

  • Health workers in Canada experience endemic levels of burnout directly related to understaffing and work overload. Leaves of absence from work for mental health
Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | February 8, 2021
Minister of Labour Filomena Tassi, pictured on the Hill Nov. 26, 2019, should work to ensure the burnout health-care workers are experiencing ends along with the pandemic, writes Dr. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Pandemic exposing critical gaps in health workforce planning

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | February 8, 2021
  • Health workers in Canada experience endemic levels of burnout directly related to understaffing and work overload. Leaves of absence from work for mental health

Pandemic exposing critical gaps in health workforce planning

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | February 8, 2021
  • Health workers in Canada experience endemic levels of burnout directly related to understaffing and work overload. Leaves of absence from work for mental health
Minister of Labour Filomena Tassi, pictured on the Hill Nov. 26, 2019, should work to ensure the burnout health-care workers are experiencing ends along with the pandemic, writes Dr. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Women’s work across every aspect of health care largely invisible

  • Sometimes an issue can be so pervasive that it is rendered nearly invisible. Take, for instance, the gender of the health workforce. Women comprise
Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | April 18, 2018
Despite their numbers, women’s participation in the health sector is highly stratified. Women are less visible in leadership positions in health care. They lead fewer than 30 per cent of hospitals and other healthcare organizations. This is even lower in the more prestigious research intensive teaching hospitals. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Women’s work across every aspect of health care largely invisible

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | April 18, 2018
  • Sometimes an issue can be so pervasive that it is rendered nearly invisible. Take, for instance, the gender of the health workforce. Women comprise

Women’s work across every aspect of health care largely invisible

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | April 18, 2018
  • Sometimes an issue can be so pervasive that it is rendered nearly invisible. Take, for instance, the gender of the health workforce. Women comprise
Despite their numbers, women’s participation in the health sector is highly stratified. Women are less visible in leadership positions in health care. They lead fewer than 30 per cent of hospitals and other healthcare organizations. This is even lower in the more prestigious research intensive teaching hospitals. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

What kind of health workforce will be needed to serve our aging population?

  • OTTAWA—We know that Canada’s population is aging. Among the many statistics that have been reported is how in 2015, the proportion of Canadian seniors
Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, GREGORY HUYER | June 6, 2016

What kind of health workforce will be needed to serve our aging population?

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, GREGORY HUYER | June 6, 2016
  • OTTAWA—We know that Canada’s population is aging. Among the many statistics that have been reported is how in 2015, the proportion of Canadian seniors

What kind of health workforce will be needed to serve our aging population?

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT, GREGORY HUYER | June 6, 2016
  • OTTAWA—We know that Canada’s population is aging. Among the many statistics that have been reported is how in 2015, the proportion of Canadian seniors

Why a new Health Accord needs to include better planning for health human resources

  • There is growing talk of a new Health Accord between the federal government and the provinces and territories. This is such good news—great news,
Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | December 29, 2015

Why a new Health Accord needs to include better planning for health human resources

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | December 29, 2015
  • There is growing talk of a new Health Accord between the federal government and the provinces and territories. This is such good news—great news,

Why a new Health Accord needs to include better planning for health human resources

Opinion | BY IVY LYNN BOURGEAULT | December 29, 2015
  • There is growing talk of a new Health Accord between the federal government and the provinces and territories. This is such good news—great news,
More Stories

News

Get free news updates

Opinion

Submit a guest opinion article

resources

Advertise

get help

Subscribe
CloseMenu