Parlement des jeunes canadien(ne)s

🚨New Research Puts a Multi-Billion Price Tag on Failure to Improve Children’s Health in Canada!

The key findings are staggering:

During the recent pediatric crisis, mothers with children under 12 experienced the greatest loss in productivity due to caregiving for their sick children. It amounted to an economic loss to the Canadian economy of nearly $50 million for mothers and over $13 million for fathers – a staggering combined cost of more than $60 million for the Canadian economy in just the fall of 2022 alone.

60% of Canadians have experienced some form of child abuse, costing an estimated $23 billion annually in court, healthcare and social services costs and long-term effects on earnings;

Childhood obesity affects one in three kids, resulting in up to $22 billion per year in lost productivity and increased healthcare costs;

Bullying affects one in five kids, costing up to $4 billion per year.

Children account for 25.4% of the total First Nations, Métis and Inuit population yet investments to meet their needs and protect their rights still drastically lag.

Between 2017 and 2020, provincial and territorial healthcare spending revealed an imbalance in resource allocation, with children and adolescents receiving $80 billion, only 11.5% of total health expenditures, while older adults received $311 billion or 44.5%.

Read the full report, and recommendations to take ACTION: https://childrenfirstcanada.org/featured/new-research-puts-a-multi-billion-price-tag-on-failure-to-improve-childrenshealth-in-canada/
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