Lifestyle

In her new book, Dr. Gretchen Roedde looks back on 25 years of experience working in women’s health in 15 developing countries, particularly in Africa. The big theme: Why is maternal health, or the United Nations’ “Millennium Development Goal #5” moving so slowly? Check out passages from her newly released book, which has already hit the Globe and Mail’s Canadian non-fiction best-seller list.

“Canada does not have a high-performing health system” is the central message of Stephen Duckett’s Where to from Here? Keeping Medicare Sustainable (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012). In his view, the Canadian system might be better than many others and there may be pockets of excellence, but Canada does not have a health system in which, as the saying goes, “the right person enables the right care in the right setting, on time, every time.”