From the Editors

Anne Wojtak; Richard Lewanczuk

doi:10.12927/hcq.2025.27592

From the Editors

Healthc Q. 2025 Jan;27(4):1-3. doi: 10.12927/hcq.2025.27592.

Authors

Anne Wojtak¹, Richard Lewanczuk²

Affiliations

¹ Anne Wojtak, is a senior healthcare leader with more than 20 years of experience in the home and community care sector in Ontario. She is the co-lead for East Toronto Health Partners (Ontario Health Team), has a consulting practice focused on health system strategy and is adjunct faculty at the University of Toronto in Toronto, ON.
² Richard Lewanczuk, has been the senior medical director for Health System Integration for Alberta Health Services in Edmonton, AB, for the past six years and before that he spent 10 years as the senior medical director for Primary Care. He is professor emeritus in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alberta, where he was involved with establishing chronic disease management and social determinants of health programming.

PMID: 40406830
DOI: 10.12927/hcq.2025.27592

Abstract

Emerging from the worst global pandemic in a century, we now face significant new threats and uncertainty through worldwide political upheaval. As Canadians, we have become acutely aware of what it means to have highly interdependent relationships threatened by an innate imbalance of power. The situation is making us reflect on what lies within our locus of control and how to build more resiliency into our society and our systems. This conversation is as relevant to healthcare as it is to virtually every aspect of our economy and society.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology
Canada / epidemiology
Delivery of Health Care* / organization & administration
Humans
Pandemics*
Politics