Commentary: The Conflict Between Protecting Public Health and Raising Tax Revenue

Healthcare policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(3), P. 29 - 32

Published: Feb. 28, 2024

When Canada created a legal market for cannabis, it gave priority to public health by restricting marketing using branding and promotion via social other media sources. These restrictions protect the from harmful use are under increasing pressure cannabis industry, which claims that they prevent them outcompeting replacing illicit market. Public advocates reasonably concerned these will not hold given our experience with alcohol, tobacco gambling where governments' fiscal dependence on tax revenue favours liberalization of regulation.

Language: Английский

A Call for Bigger Thinking and Meaningful Improvements in Health and Well-Being: Time to Move on From Small-Scale Changes

Healthcare policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(3), P. 6 - 20

Published: Feb. 28, 2024

Effective reforms to provinces' and territories' healthcare delivery systems are needed generate meaningful changes in population-based health well-being outcomes Canada. These include transformations that slow the decline of improve quality life - such as those relevant long-term care aged expansive enough prevention promotion.

Language: Английский