Nunavut suicides a “public health emergency”

Nunavut suicides a "public health emergency".

Nunavut’s government “shall immediately declare suicide a public health emergency,” and appoint a Cabinet minister responsible for suicide prevention, recommended a coroner’s jury in Iqaluit. The territorial government should appoint the new minister by its next sitting and add a secretariat with “the mandate and the resources to demonstrate the Government’s commitment to this crisis,” by April...

Nunavut calls inquest into record number of suicides.

Nunavut: A Health System Profile

Based on extensive research, including visits to most health centres and facilities in Nunavut, Gregory P. Marchildon and Renée Torgerson have produced a comprehensive review of healthcare in Canada’s newest territory. Nunavut: A Health System Profile provides an in-depth examination of population health and healthcare in the territory. Little more than a decade old, Nunavut has a population th...

Crack in Brazil: a public health emergency.

What is a public health "emergency"?

O March 27, 2014, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick declared the state’s opioid-addiction epidemic a public health emergency. The declaration empowered the Massachusetts public health commissioner to use emergency powers to expand access to naloxone, an opioid antagonist that can reverse overdoses; develop a plan to accelerate the mandatory use of prescription monitoring by physicians and ph...