Strategic Directions
Health Policy Issues
| Health Sector GST |
- CHAC Advocacy Alert (Jan. 23, 2008)
- CHAC letter to the Federal Finance Minister (Dec. 21, 2007)
- "GST discriminates against health sector..." - ACAHO (Nov, 14, 2007)
- "Health sector GST unfair..." - CHA (Nov, 14, 2007)
- Backgrounder
| Legislation |
| Health care system |
- A CHAC Reply to the CMA’s Medicare Plus Policy Paper: Undermining Medicare is not the Solution to Improved Access to Health Care (October 2007)
- Romanow Commission (2002)
- Senate Study (2002)
- For-Profit Health Care Fact Sheets
- CHAC Review Articles
| Palliative and end-of-life care |
- CHAC Joins 28 national organizations in calling for federal leadership to improve palliative and end-of-life care in Canada.
- Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada Framework for a National Strategy on Palliative and End-of-Life Care (September, 2005)
- Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada Submission to the 5 year Report of the Senate Subcommittee final report Quality End-of-Life Care: The Right of Every Canadian (February 10, 2005)
- Brief to the Senate Social Affairs Subcommittee to Update "On Life and Death (2000)
| Euthanasia and assisted suicide |
- Assisted Suicide: The Way to Canada to Go? Toronto Star (January 12, 2001)
- Care of the Dying Person: "Is Quality Care the Luck of the Draw?" The Catholic Health Association of Canada Brief to the Senate Social Affairs Subcommittee to Update "Of Life and Death" (March 2000)
- Care-in-Dying: The Catholic Health Association of Canada Brief
to the Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
( September 1994) - Other resources
| Health human resources |
- Core Principles and Strategic Directions for a Pan-Canadian Health Human Resources Plan (HEAL, March 2006)
| Wait lists |
| Faith-based and ethical concerns |
- "Catholic health care called into question" (tubal ligation policy in Humboldt, SK)
- Index of Resources on Medically Administered Nutrition and Hydration (MANH)
- Stem Cell Research