Podcast episode transcript & companion document: Disrupting for health care for all (Mind the Disruption, Season 2, Episode 5)
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“The objective of the campaign is that, to put it very simply, we will not be seeing those children anymore in our clinic. Not because we don't want to see them but because we should not be seeing them. So that means that we wanted the health system to be able to serve them adequately. We wanted coverage, provincial health insurance coverage, for those children.” – Chloé Cébron (Mind the Disruption, Season 2, Episode 5)
In the second season of the NCCDH’s Mind the Disruption podcast, we explore social movements for social justice: groups of people working together to build collective power for change in service of a healthier, more just world.
Check out this episode of the NCCDH’s Mind the Disruption podcast to learn from Chloé Cébron and Shezeen Suleman who are part of a growing movement mobilizing for the right to health care for all people living in Canada, regardless of immigration status. In this episode, Chloé, the director of policy and advocacy at Médecins du Monde, shares lessons from a successful advocacy campaign to expand health care coverage for all children living in Quebec. Then Shezeen, a midwife and co-chair of the Health Network for Uninsured Clients in Toronto, reflects on using advocacy as a strategy for health equity.
You can discover this episode by listening to the episode and/or reading this episode companion document, which includes a written transcript of the episode, key quotes, curated related resources and reflection/discussion questions.
Use this resource to
- Use the reflection questions to facilitate discussion about the role of public health to advance health equity for migrants without health care coverage.
- Learn about pressing health equity and social and structural determinants of health issues and solutions
- Explore embedded related resources from NCCDH and others to support public health action to disrupt the status quo
Related resources:
Precarious immigration status, precarious health: Working together to ensure healthcare for all women living in Quebec (Médecins du Monde/Doctors of the World, 2023)
Bill 83 - implementation and information – access to the RAMQ (Médecins du Monde/Doctors of the World, 2021)
Immigration status and care [Online course] (Médecins du Monde/Doctors of the World)
Health Network for Uninsured Clients
A bridge to universal healthcare: The benefits of Ontario’s program to make hospital care accessible to all residents of the province (Schmidt, Suleman, Da Silva, Gagnon, Marshall, Tolentino, 2023)
OHIP registration for newborns of uninsured parents and custodians: A guide for hospital staff (Health Network for Uninsured Clients, 2023)
Immigration Status as the Foundational Determinant of Health for People Without Status in Canada: A Scoping Review (Gagnon, Kansal, Goel, Gastaldo, 2021)
Let’s Talk: Advocacy and health equity (NCCDH, 2015)
Does public health advocacy seek to redress health inequities? A scoping review (Cohen & Marshall, 2017)
Podcast episode transcript & companion document: Disrupting migrant work (Mind the Disruption, Season 1, Episode 4)
Reference
National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health. (2024). Podcast episode transcript & companion document: Disrupting for Health Care for All (Mind the Disruption, Season 2, Episode 5). Antigonish, NS: NCCDH, St. Francis Xavier University.
Tags: Access to health services, Immigration, Intersectoral action, Audio, Podcast