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The Global Burden of Dementia: A Modern-Day Threat to Healthy Aging

Gordon Thane January 23, 2022 No Comments

Just 100 years ago, in 1913, the global life expectancy was only 34.1 years old (Our World in Data, 2019). Today, that age has jumped to 72.8 years (Macrotrends, 2021),…

Violence Against Health Workers

Gordon Thane January 18, 2022 No Comments

Health workers play a crucial role in the functioning and flourishing of our society. In hospitals, homes, and sites of natural disaster within Canada and around the world, these essential…

Social Determinants of Health: Educational Attainment and Public Health Literacy

Gordon Thane January 18, 2022 No Comments

It is often said that education is the foundational pillar of lifelong success. Indeed, a theme familiar to many modern families is the paramount importance parents place on getting their…

Barriers to Safe Consumption Sites: How Stipulation Stops Us From Solving The Opioid Crisis

Gordon Thane January 8, 2022 No Comments

Being an issue with multiple intersecting factors, the opioid crisis is a complex epidemic that is affecting the everyday person each day. There have been many approaches to this issue,…

Social Determinants of Health: Understanding the Causes of the Causes

Gordon Thane January 8, 2022 No Comments

Contemporary discourse commonly frames the root causes of good or poor health as a primarily biomedical phenomenon. We are told that it is the intersection of diet, lifestyle, genetic, and…

Opioids: The Prescription that Caused the Epidemic

Gordon Thane January 2, 2022 No Comments

Opioid use has been recorded throughout history but has recently experienced a sudden and dramatic surge in opioid use and dependence. With about 62 million people using opioids at least…

A Ticket to Freedom or a License for Segregation? The Evolution of the Immunity Passport Discussion

Gordon Thane January 2, 2022 No Comments

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic’s Delta-driven fourth wave, governments around the world, including many Canadian provincial and local jurisdictions, are turning to so-called “immunity” or “vaccine passports” to…

Racism, the Black Experience, and the Perpetual Fight for Equality

Gordon Thane December 27, 2021 No Comments

On Monday, May 25th, 2020, George Floyd, an African American man in his 40s was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States. These scenarios have…

Colour-Coded Health Disparities

Gordon Thane December 27, 2021 No Comments

A familiar theme in public health is the uneven distribution of outcomes across segments of the population occupying different tiers of the socio-cultural hierarchy. Despite the tremendous progress North America…

Gun Violence and Public Health: No Silver Bullet?

Gordon Thane December 22, 2021 No Comments

On the evening of April 18 2020, a 51-year-old gunman went on a 13-hour rampage across the small town of Portapique, Nova Scotia, murdering 22 people and injuring six others…

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