The Major Problems Of Population Overcrowding In Canada

balance is the overcrowding of prisons. In 2011, the United States Supreme Court ruled that massive overcrowding of California prisons violates its prisoner’s eighth amendment right protecting them from cruel and unusual punishment (Boylan, 2015, p. 558). At the time California’s correctional institutions were at double their capacity, housing over 155, 500 prisoners in only 33 institutions (Specter, 2010, p. 194). The overcrowding of correctional facilities is one of the biggest problems facing corrections

Key aspects of the Canadian health care system Canada is known for its universal health care system. Health care services across Canada are financed by the government and follows the guidelines of the Canada Health Act (1984) Which states: “ to protect, promote, and restore the physical and mental well being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers”. The Canada health act includes medically necessary hospital diagnostic

Causes of ED overcrowding and lengthening wait time include, influenza season, inadequate staffing, inpatient boarding due to inadequate hospital beds and patient population larger than hospital capacity (Hoot and Aronsky, 2008). The length of stay in the ED has a correlation with the quality of care a patient receives. Many EDs struggle with patient overcrowding and there appears to be no silver bullet to adequately

Overcrowding in Prisons In the United States, the increasing population within prisons contribute to the stress regarding the security of correctional facilities’ and the negative effects on inmates. Overcrowding can be defined as a space with a concentrated number of objects or people in a space beyond comfort. According to Verne Cox, PhD, “as a group of prison researchers summarized, in the 1980s [...] crowding in prisons is a major source of administrative problems and adversely affects inmate

care needs for aboriginals that live in Northwest Ontario, also because the population is so high. The first nations population is the largest (958,000) Followed by the Metis (266,000) and the Inuit (51,000). Every year the

In the 1970s and 1980s, a massive amount of inmates began fillin up the United States prison systems. This huge rate of growth in this short amount of time, has greatly contributed to the prison overcrowding that the United States faces today. In fact, the prisons are still filled to the seams. This enormous flood of inmates has made it practically impossible for prison officials to keep up with their facilities and supervise their inmates. One of the main reasons why many prisons have become overcrowded

Intro Emergency Departments (ED) overcrowding in Canada has become an epidemic. ED overcrowding has been defined as “a situation in which the demand for emergency services exceeds the ability of an (emergency) department to provide quality care within acceptable time frames” (Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, 2014). This has been an ongoing problem across Canada. Ontario has developed an initiative to reduce ED wait times by implementing a variety of strategies. This paper describes

cars the answer? Or should cities like Toronto, start promoting other transportation methods? What is inefficient transportation? Cars are a very well known source of transportation, especially in the metropolitan cities in Canada. Although there is one major problem about cars, gasoline. Gasoline is the substance that a car essentially needs to function, unfortunately gasoline is horrible for the environment, our bodies, it's a nonrenewable resource and it costs a lot of money. Transportation

Canada is a nation of opportunity and freedom, known to the world for being kind, polite, and accepting. However, Canada does have a dark history with the Indigenous population, where we have shown undeniable amounts of discrimination towards them, a past full of neglect, hate, abuse and humiliation. Even the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau declared that “Canada is no land of wonders” (Jazeera, 2017). To this day Canadian society is still oppressing the Indigenous population as they face

reported to having the highest use of EDs (Ontario Hospital Association, 2006). ED overcrowding in Canada has become an epidemic. ED overcrowding has been defined as “a situation in which the demand for emergency services exceeds the ability of an (emergency) department to provide quality care within acceptable time frames” (Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, 2014). This has been an ongoing problem across Canada. Ontario has developed an initiative to reduce ED wait times by implementing