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We have created short video clips and audio podcasts (3-5 minutes in length) featuring our expert advisors speaking on important health policy topics. We are making these videos available to everyone, free of charge, with a Creative Commons license, so that you may use them in your website or blog. We also feature favourite videos of our experts speaking at important conferences on health, politics and public policy.

Evidence is important to us, and we are committed to getting the evidence right — even when it can be interpreted in a number of ways. If you feel we have not represented the evidence accurately or fairly in these opinion video pieces, please let us know.

	AGING POPULATION AND ITS POTENTIAL IMPACT		HEALTHCARE COSTS AND SPENDING
Too many seniors are dying in hospitals: How we can improve end of life care, with Dr. Verena Menec (4.5 min) Dr. Verena Menec of the University of Manitoba discusses why so many elderly Canadians are dying in hospitals and in acute care settings. Audio Podcast: End of life care options limited, with Lindsay Jolivet (4.8 min) Palliative care doctors who see dying differently. Most seniors say they want to die at home. However, about half of seniors are dying in hospitals, according to research by Verena Menec, the Director of the University of Manitoba's Centre on Aging.		What We've Learned: Working with Journalists Across Europe on Health Reporting Webinar with Dr. John Lister (53.4 min) Presented by Dr. John Lister, May 14, 2013 at the University of Manitoba for EvidenceNetwork.ca. Hip and knee implants need improved monitoring and assessment, with Dr. Eric Bohm (5.6 min) Dr. Eric Bohm from the University of Manitoba explains how hip and knee surgeries could learn a thing or two from the automotive industry about quality control, transparency and regulation.
	PRIVATE, FOR-PROFIT SOLUTIONS TO FUNDING AND DELIVERY		HEALTH IS MORE THAN HEALTHCARE
		Canada falling short on foster care, with Dr. Marni Brownell (5.08 min) According to information from the Centres of Excellence for Children's Well-Being (CECW), there were 67,000 children in out-of-home care in Canada on one day in 2007, which translates into one of the highest rates of kids in foster care in the world. Dr. Marni Brownell addresses why this is the case, and what we should be doing about it. The latest public health crisis? Canadian kids going hungry, with Dr. Elizabeth Lee Ford Jones (5 min) Dr. Elizabeth Lee Ford-Jones, a Professor of Paediatrics at The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, discusses the increasing problem of poverty on the health and well being of Canadian children.
	PATIENT FINANCING OF HEALTHCARE (THE PATIENT PAYS)		MORE CARE IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER
Why user fees won't make our health system more affordable, with Raisa Deber (4.4 min) Professor Raisa Deber speaks about why making patients pay user fees won't make our health system more affordable.		Why medical screening still has value, but not everyone should be screened, with Dr. Alan Katz (4 min) Early screening for cancer is best, right? Except when it's not. Dr. Katz outlines the latest research on the issue and highlights who should, and should not, be screened, according to the evidence.
	SUSTAINABILITY		WAITING FOR CARE

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