Canada's universal health-care system: achieving its potential.

TL;DR: The two Series papers raise important points about the strengths of Canada’s health-care system and the continuing health inequities the country must find ways to address, as well as looking at social determinants of health approaches.

TL;DR: It is suggested that Black children and youth face many barriers to accessing the Canadian mental healthcare system despite its purported universality and an increase in funding, expansion of the universal healthcare system to include mental health, and concerted effort on delivering culturally competent care are requisite to facilitate access to care.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of contemporary barriers to accessing healthcare faced by Indigenous people of Canada and approaches taken to mitigate these concerns, focusing on three categories: proximal, intermediate, and distal barriers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contextualize the experience of resettled refugees in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, framing the issue for further study as the situation evolves.

TL;DR: The world's almost 400 million Indigenous people have low standards of health, which are associated with poverty, malnutrition, overcrowding, poor hygiene, environmental contamination, and prevalent infections as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This review, the authors summarize current trends, barriers and limitations, and the potential for telehealth to improve health care delivery.

TL;DR: Health disparities are indicators of a relative disproportionate burden of disease on a particular population as mentioned in this paper, i.e., those indicators that a particular group of individuals have a higher burden of ill health and social suffering.

TL;DR: The Honorable Murray Sinclair as mentioned in this paper was the first Aboriginal judge appointed in Manitoba and Canada's second Aboriginal judge to the Senate and served as Co-Chair of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry in Manitoba, and as Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).