Parity needed for mental and physical health funding, treatment

10 February, 2023

The federal government has pledged to help fund the expansion of free mental health services across Canada. Hear more from Dr. Lesley Lutes, Director of the Centre for Obesity and Wellbeing Research Excellence in UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, who explains that while this is positive news, more needs to be done to bring parity between mental and physical health care.

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