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Open this photo in gallery:Moms Stop the Harm advocates and supporters march from Centennial Square to the Ministry of Health in Victoria, BC, on April 14, 2022. The Diamond Foundation is announcing a $20-million donation to St. Paul’s Foundation for the new Road to Recovery at Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital.CHAD HIPOLITO/The Canadian PressJill Diamond is executive director of the Diamond Foundation, which has donated millions for health care and other causes. It’s taken me seven years to write these words. Seven years of crushing grief and inconsolable loss. Seven years of grappling with the endless questions I can’t…

School districts across the country rely on SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education in order to develop their own standards, frameworks and curricula. As part of the ongoing standards revision process, SHAPE America’s National Physical Education Standards Task Force has tirelessly gathered research and best practices from education experts around the world, and has collected feedback from the HPE community. Based on the feedback from the first round of Public Review and Comment, SHAPE America, and the National Physical Education Standards Task Force have developed proposed Student Attributes and Draft Standards, which are now available…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford listens to members of the media during a press conference in Ottawa, on Feb. 7, 2023.Spencer Colby/The Canadian PressThe federal government has agreed to Ontario’s request for a five-year review of the new health care agreement, as Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc praised Premier Doug Ford for helping to broker the deal with other provincial and territorial leaders. Ottawa says it will review both the current bilateral health care agreements on areas such as home care, mental health and long-term care, as well as the new 10-year $46.2-billion deal that the premiers accepted earlier this…

Euan McPhersonNOMINATIONS are already pouring in for this year’s Hereford Times Health and Social Care Awards, but there’s still plenty of time to nominate your personal hero in the sector. The awards, held in conjunction with the University of Worcester and Altogether Care, were created to recognize the hard work, dedication, innovation and care delivered across the health and social care sectors. A former winner of the Mental Health category, Herefordshire Men’s Mental Health Group, is among those nominated this year.Hereford Times: health and social care awards 2023 logoOne of several nominations for the group singles it…

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh tabled a motion in the House of Commons Thursday to force Liberal MPs to condemn Ontario’s experiment with more private delivery of common surgeons. The motion calls on MPs to “express disappointment” in the prime minister for calling Ontario’s plan a form of “innovation.” Trudeau has said he’s open to ideas that will help a beleaguered health-care system deal with staffing shortages and COVID-related backlogs. Singh has said it’s a slippery slope to “two-tier” health-care. “A certain amount of innovation should be good as long as they’re abiding by the Canada Health Act,” Trudeau said in…

(Article 2 of 5)[5-Part Article Series] People with physical disabilities hold limited positions as scholars, teachers, or leaders in physical education, recreation, and sports. Perhaps the reason is that the field is flooded with able-bodied people who think they know best. But do they? Michael Oliver, imminent writer, and scholar argued that people with physical disabilities should be the only ones in the field of disability studies because they have a bodily experience with disabilities. The following five-part article series shares the perspective of a scholar in the field of sports disability who has his own physical limitations. In…

Comment on this storyCommentYou’re reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter on how to navigate covid-19 and other public health challenges. Click here to get the full newsletter in your inboxincluding answers to reader questions and a summary of new scientific research.Should hospitals and other health-care facilities maintain mask requirements, even though they have long been dropped in virtually all other settings?This is a highly contentious issue. Some prominent experts have argued that the downsides of hospital mask mandates outweigh benefits, while others advocate changing the paradigm of medical care to sustain universal masking for the…

PHE America has announced its editorial board members for 2023. The Editorial Board is composed of professionals in higher education interested in serving as reviewers to offer writers constructive feedback in preparing their articles for publication. Editorial Board members serve both PHE America and Sport Coach America. The six-member board includes Brian Sather, a professor at Eastern Oregon University; Editor-in-Chief, Pete Van Mullema professor at Lewis-Clark State College and director of Sport Coach America; Rory Weishaaran associate professor at Central Washington University; Jessica Savagean instructor at Lewis-Clark State College; Aubrey Shaw, an academic program advisor at the University of Idaho;…