Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance 2024 Pre-Budget Consultation Process
Background
The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) is the national voice for mental health in Canada. Established in 1992, CAMIMH is a member-driven alliance of 17 mental health and substance use health organizations comprised of people with lived or living experience, their families and caregivers, and health care providers. For more information, please go to www.CAMIMH.ca.
Recommendations
- That the federal government pass a companion piece of legislation to the Canada Health Act called the Mental Health and Substance Use Health Care For All Parity Act – which equally values mental health, substance use health and physical health.
- That the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) have the necessary resources to work collaboratively with the provinces and territories, and other stakeholders, to develop: (1) a national public, community-based, and private health expenditure data series; (2) comprehensive health system performance indicators in mental health and substance use health; and (3) a comprehensive and ongoing mental health and substance use health workforce sector analyses to identify gaps and project future needs, and protect the public.
- That the federal government provide long-term funding to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to ensure mental health and substance use health research funding across its Institutes and its four pillars is proportional to mental health and substance use health’s burden of disease.
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