Health & Healthcare

Women's health platforms

Here's what the 2024 Nova Scotia election parties are promising.

PC

  • Create a Menopause Centre of Excellence

    "Support women's health and create Canada's first Menopause Centre of Excellence." — Make It Happen, retrieved 2024-11-10

  • Consider adding new MSI billing codes for menopause counselling

    "In addition, the re-elected PC Government will also explore adding new MSI billing codes for menopause counselling to support family doctors as they in turn support women." — pcpartyns.ca, retrieved 2024-11-10

Liberal

  • Provide publicly-available free menstrual products in all provincial buildings
  • Appoint a Minister of Women's Health

    "To address this, we will name a Minister of Women’s Health to ensure that, throughout the system, a gender lens is applied to the delivery of healthcare, and a blueprint is adopted for improving women’s health. This will help us tackle specific health issues women are facing in this province, like endometriosis and ovarian cancer." — Better Deal for Nova Scotians, retrieved 2024-11-09

  • Require 50% of all health research funding in the province to be used for studying women's health
  • Re-establish the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health

    "In addition, we will re-establish the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health to address current gaps, enhance research on women’s health issues, and strengthen the Nova Scotian health system response to the specific health needs and concerns of women in our province." — Better Deal for Nova Scotians, retrieved 2024-11-09

NDP

  • Provide home self-screening kits to test for HPV

    "Helping prevent cervical cancer by detecting it earlier. We will provide home self-screening kits to test for human papillomavirus (HPV) - making it easy for people to proactively detect the virus before it leads to cervical cancer." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

  • Create a new midwifery strategy to increase the number of midwives in the province and expand their scope of services

    "Improving maternity care across the province through a new midwifery strategy that increases the number of midwives in Nova Scotia and expands their scope of reproductive and sexual health care services - including more services like IUD insertion and prescribing Mifegymiso - to help ease the pressure on other primary care providers while providing more personalized care for people." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

  • Provide free menopause treatment with hormone replacement therapy

    "Protecting women against health care risks like heart disease and osteoporosis, and reduce the risk of cancer, by providing free menopause treatment with HRT." — Leadership You Can Believe In, retrieved 2024-11-16

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