Sage Public Health

Canadian healthcare is not universal. Nowhere is this lack of universality more evident than in the payment for drugs in Canada. Canadians without the financial wherewithal cannot access orphan drugs for rare diseases and take-at-home oral cancer drugs and many other pharmaceuticals. In addition to the physical and emotional tolls experienced, patients and survivors and their families and caregivers bear the brunt of an ever-growing financial burden. This article outlines how this happened and what to do about it.

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In this podcast, Jean Berny interviews Steven Gambescia Editor-In-Cheif of the new journal Pedagogy in Health Promotion

Lawrence Waterman, Head of Health & Safety for the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) discusses amongst other things the lasting legacy of the 2012 Olympics as well as what can be learnt from building such a large scale site as the London Olympic Village, and how an outstanding health and safety performance has been achieved in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Site.

What are the best practices in quantitative organizational communication research? In this podcast, Management Communication Quarterly Editor, James Barker talks to

African American men experience an increased incidence of prostate cancer. This podcast presents barriers to prostate cancer screening and information on a community based barber health advisor intervention to increase knowledge and awareness regarding prostate cancer and screening measures in the African American community.