1. Overcrowding Hospital Emergency Rooms
The demographics of Ontario's population are one of the main causes of overcrowding in emergency departments. I say this because as the population demographics transform, emergency department congestion will continue to worsen (Eggertson, 2004). I learned that by 2031, Canada's population will be double the amount because Canada will have 25% of individuals that are the age of sixty-five and above (Collier, 2001, p.553). ... That being said, this visit rate has enlarged over 50% since 1992 (Collier, 2001). To discharge the problem towards ED's and the healthcare system altogeth...
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