Analyzing Mental Health Challenges in the Canadian Healthcare System

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and potential solutions surrounding mental health in Canada. It begins by highlighting the importance of mental well-being as a critical component of overall health and emphasizes its impact on individuals' ability to cope with life's challenges and maintain healthy relationships. The report then delves into the current state of mental healthcare in Canada, pointing out gaps in service accessibility, particularly concerning the scope of "medically necessary" services and the financial burden placed on individuals seeking mental health support. It addresses the stigma associated with mental illness, which further exacerbates the problem by hindering access to treatment. The report analyzes the role of the Canadian government and the Mental Health Commission of Canada, advocating for increased government intervention, national legislation, and the ethical use of technology in mental healthcare. It suggests improvements in care pathways, insurance schemes, and the training of healthcare professionals to expand access to mental health services. The author stresses the need for equality between physical and mental illness, public compassion, and the eradication of stigma to improve mental health outcomes for all Canadians, emphasizing the importance of promoting mental well-being and implementing effective strategies to enhance mental health for the entire population.

Munir A. Shaym
Manager in Hopkins Groups
100 Tourneys Pasture Driveway
Ottawa KIA OT6
Ministry Of Health
Office of the Deputy Mayor
Frost Building South
7 Queens’s Park
Toronto CN, M7 1YZ
Tel; (416) 325- 1675
Fax; (416) 365- 1735
March 29th 2020
Dear Sir:

The Canada Health Act oversees healthcare in Canada. The purpose of the Healthcare Act is to
guard the psychological wellbeing of the people of Canada and ensure easy entrée to healthcare
facilities notwithstanding of individual aspects such as earnings, education of social disparities.
With subsidy from the national government, regions need to offer treatment for health services
that are deemed as ‘medically necessary’ to maintain good health, preventing disease outbreaks,
and treat an injury or incapacity.
Mental health is vital for Canadians, and everyone at large.it is an essential resource for
living a good life and a primary factor for the overall health. Poor mental health can easily lead
to physical illness. Good mental health makes it possible for a person to think, feel, and act in
ways that would help him enjoy life and cope with its challenges. It is vital to build a supportive
community to improve mental health. It is also vital to have meaningful connections with family
friends, peers, colleagues and other members of the communities. Good mental health will make
a person feel that they belong; they are secure and free to express their thoughts and feeling of
issues that are important to them. A person can create good mental health from where they live;
work or play by accepting and accommodating other peoples difficulties in their lives, taking
part in the local events and familiarizing with your neighbors, finding ways to get involved in
societal wellbeing and taking part in societal work, supporting people of different ages and
backgrounds in the community among others. Mental health is a vital health factor since it assists
a person to increase the coping skills and how people handle hard life experiences and stresses,
leads to the improvement in self-esteem whereby one feels confident in their worth and
capabilities and also improves resilience in how they move on after they face an adverse event or
how they regain control in their life. Good mental health leads to improvement in the way in
which people cope with skills, self-esteem and encourages persons to create healthy relations,

interact with the community members freely and talk openly about their mental health including
their needs and wants. Once a person is confident in the areas, as mentioned earlier, their
emotional strength can improve and assist the person in maintaining the level of mental health
required.
The issue concerning medical health among Canadians is important because since the
scope and attention of ‘medically necessary’ have faced several protests in the recent past. There
are several; services in the country that are partially funded. Most Canadians have been
encountering this gap when they visit mental professionals where only partial coverage is done.
Several opinions have been raised concerning the existence of mental wellbeing in the Canadian
healthcare community. Some of the opinions reveal the challenges that Canadians have been
facing and the solutions towards the same. I concur with these opinions since there are people
who suffer mental health and are not able to access good health due to several factors as
discussed below.
Mental well-being has been acknowledged as a vital aspect of a person’s health. In our
present health government, the most of mental well-being services in the country do not reach
the suitability requirements of “medically necessary.” Lest acquired in healthcare facilities,
mental services are supposed to be from the pocket or covered by third party cover. Weekly
visitations to the psychoanalysts or counselors have been left to the sick person to pay the bills.
The latter has been happening despite the acknowledgment that healthiness is a vital right for all
Canadians with the psychological health being part of such a constituent of the general health.

With the weight of funding for a person’s psychological well-being left to the sick
person, it is not astonishing that such huge numbers of Canadians set psychological well-being
concerns aside for later. Research shows that while 1 out of 5 Canadians will encounter
emotional health challenges at whatever year, just 1 out of 3 reports looking for treatment. A
CBC report asserts that stigma that encompasses emotional well-being costs bosses
approximately $20 billion every year. Limited access to psychological well-being facilities and
hostile environment to talk about emotional well-being leads to non-attendance, absence of
efficiency and rising cases among representatives. Among an assortment of working
environments, mental issues make up 70% of inability costs. Working environment aside,
emotional wellness cases can cost the Canadian economy approximately $50 billion as indicated
by the Mental Health Commission. These expenses have raised a reason for concern.
The absence of availability to psychological well-being services has driven human
services suppliers, scientists, and policy specialists to make calls for Canadian social insurance
reformation. One such a call has been for the production of a government intends to handle the
ignored area of emotional wellness. Even though the areas and domains have embraced Mental
Health enactment explicit to them, the government presently can't seem to draft enactment which
would be official on all. National enactment might be valuable in guaranteeing predictable access
to emotional wellness benefits the nation over and could help stop segregation endured by those
encountering psychological wellness challenges.

The government should find a way to address calls for change. The Mental Health
Commission of Canada was made in light of a 2007 report called "Out of the Shadows," which
called for more noteworthy government mediation in rising mental well-being concerns. The
Commission is a careful distance autonomous organization acting under the central government
whose command was to draft the principal psychological wellness system for Canada. Their
2012 Strategy denotes an adjustment to deal with bringing mental well-being out of the shadows
and into the bleeding edge of Canadian arrangement. They guarantee to carry equity to the
implying that there can be no good health without psychological well-being.
Mental health needs association among all investors, including all communal groups,
political groups, indigenous and federal governments, universal organizations and reserved
sector firms in Canada, among others. These organizations need to address mental issues across
the country. It is also important for the government to create strategies that ethnically frame and
direct new know-hows and data for early analysis and prevention of mental ill-health. It is
essential to leverage data and technology to enable rapid precision diagnostics. For instance,
some apps use built-in cellphone devices to gather info on a buyer's typical conduct pattern,
offering signals that assist in notifying before a crisis occurs. The latter offers thrilling chances
but raises concern for the Canadian government to come up with supremacy schemes that will
guide ethical and suitable utilization of such technologies to enable optimistic consequences that
impact on the patient. It is also essential for healthcare institutions to improve care pathways and
insurance schemes for the treatment of particular mental disorders through the definition and
adoption of standards of care. Channels for psychological medicinal services tend not to be
characterized, actualized or institutionalized across care centers. They additionally do not
generally reflect connections between partners, changeability of sickness and patient distinction.

For instance, mental and psychological services are regularly not incorporated. Besides,
mental clutters are periodically excluded from repayment plans, bringing about people being
confronted with overwhelming budgetary ramifications for looking for mental, and social
insurance. Moreover, mental clutters are regularly excluded from repayment plans, bringing
about people being faced with overwhelming fiscal consequences for looking for mental, and
social insurance.
The Canadian government, through the ministry of health, needs to upsurge the number
of healthcare specialists ad train non-specialists to deliver mental healthcare at the community
level. The government of Canada needs to encourage equality between physical and mental
illness. Mental health professionals should do public and private model compassion for others.
They should reach homeless Canadians who are struggling with mental illness and show
humanity to them. It is also advisable to be conscious of the language they use towards the
mentally ill people. Often, the widespread the disgrace connected to psychological well-being
issues endangers the advancement and execution of emotional wellness strategy. Stigma is the
basic aspect that leads to separation and exclusion. In essence, it impacts on an individuals'
confidence, makes a difference to disturb their household links, and bounds their capability to
mingle and get lodging and employments. It additionally adds to the ill-treatment of human
rights in some large institutions. It is subsequently significant for the Canadian social services
framework to concoct techniques to guarantee that there is no defamation of individuals who are
mentally sick.
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The Canadian government ought to observe the implication of psychological well-being
for all its citizens. It is key to personal gratification, authorizing persons to experience life as
indispensable and to be imaginative and dynamic. Open emotional wellness fortifies ways of life
helpful for mental opulence. Psychological wellness advancement needs to focus on the entire
populace, integrating individuals with emotional wellness issues and their healthcare providers.
The improvement and usage of compelling strategies to advance psychological wellbeing will
upgrade mental health for all.