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					<title><![CDATA[Ottawa investit dans la recherche visant à améliorer l'accès des enfants et des adolescents aux services de santé mentale]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[La ministre f&eacute;d&eacute;rale de la sant&eacute;, Leona Aglukkaq, a annonc&eacute; pr&egrave;s de 300 000 $ en financement envers trois projets visant &agrave; am&eacute;liorer l'acc&egrave;s des enfants et des adolescents canadiens aux services de sant&eacute; mentale. Les trois projets subventionn&eacute;s porteront sur les questions suivantes :

    Le d&eacute;pistage de la d&eacute;pression dans les &eacute;coles et en milieu m&eacute;dical chez les enfants et les adolescents et l'efficacit&eacute; des traitements et du d&eacute;pistage en soi pour contribuer &agrave; de meilleurs r&eacute;sultats cliniques;
    Outil en ligne aidant les fournisseurs de services de sant&eacute; mentale &agrave; acc&eacute;der &agrave; l'information factuelle la plus r&eacute;cente pour prendre des d&eacute;cisions plus &eacute;clair&eacute;es sur les politiques de sant&eacute; mentale, les programmes et la prestation de services aux enfants et adolescents; et,
    Examen de la gamme de services de sant&eacute; mentale offerts par voie &eacute;lectronique (interventions assur&eacute;es au moyen de technologies d'Internet) pour d&eacute;terminer s'ils sont efficaces, s'ils sont bien utilis&eacute;s et s'ils sont enti&egrave;rement accessibles &agrave; tous les jeunes Canadiens, et ce, pour mieux informer les d&eacute;cideurs.
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					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>		
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					<title><![CDATA[Organ donation rates go flat, wait time for kidney transplant reaches 3.7 years: CIHI report]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Organ donation and transplant rates in Canada have stagnated since 2006, according to a CIHI annual report on end-stage organ failure. The average time spent on dialysis for people waiting for a kidney transplant is 3.7 years, with CIHI saying the wait time has "substantial cost implications." The institute estimated it costs about $60,000 for hemodialysis per patient per year compared with $23,000 for a kidney transplant plus $6,000 a year for medications. The aging population is reflected among new end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients: Over half of those who started kidney treatment such as dialysis were 65 or older in 2010, up from 39% in 1991. Over one third of new ESRD cases was linked to diabetes, while renal vascular disease accounted for 18%. The report also includes chapters on liver, heart and pancreas transplants and the emerging field of small intestine transplants.]]></description>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>		
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					<title><![CDATA[Physical activity in youth 'significantly' affected by five factors, study suggests]]></title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published in Canadian Family Physician, this study surveyed more than 4,000 children aged 8 to 15 in Saskatoon. It found that only 7% met the Health Canada standard of somewhat intense physical activity for over an hour a day. The research identified five factors as being significant in this group: their fathers were employed; their parents watched them participate in physical activity; their friends encouraged them; they were not teased; and they played sports with coaches or instructors more than 4 times a week. Half of the kids surveyed felt that more gym class could solve the problem.]]></description>
					<category><![CDATA[Population Health]]></category>
					<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>		
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