Canada

Canada

Canada is a democratic country in the northern portion of North America comprised of 10 provinces and three territories reaching from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans and encompassing 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles). Most of this land is sub-arctic to arctic in climate, but the southern areas of some provinces are warm enough for agriculture. The vast majority of Canadians live in urban areas, such as Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Total population is approximately 35 million. Canada shares a border, the world's longest, with the United States.

Demographics

The 2005 Community Health Survey conducted by Statistics Canada indicated that there were 333,816 people diagnosed with ME/CFS.

In 2014, according to the Canadian Community Health Survey, the number of people aged 12 or older diagnosed with ME/CFS was 407,789 or 1.4% of the total population. The number of males diagnosed with ME/CFS was 149,013 (1%) and the number of females diagnosed with ME/CFS was 258,776 (1.7%).

Medical guidelines

Clinicians guides

• Alberta Clinicians Guide

National health department

• Health Canada

Patient charities

• Action CIND
• Association Québécoise de l’Encéphalomyélite Myalgique (AQEM)
• FM-CFS Canada
• May12th.org
• Millions Missing Canada
• National ME/FM Action Network

Research

2016-2017 funding

Notable studies

• 2016, Three Approaches to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada: Lessons for Democratic Policy

Research groups

• Interdisciplinary Canadian Collaborative ME
• Nightingale Research Foundation
• Open Medicine Foundation Canada

Researchers

• Alain Moreau
• Alison Bested
• Amir Landi
• Bruce Carruthers
• Byron Hyde
• David Patrick
• Eleanor Stein
• Gordon Broderick
• Liisa Kaarina Selin
• Michael Houghton
• Patrick McGowan
• Ric Arseneau
• Rosane Nisenbaum
• Wilfred de Vega
• Category:Alberta researchers
• Category:British Columbia researchers
• Category:Ontario researchers

Clinicians

• A C Peter Powles
• Alison Bested
• Anil Kumar Jain
• Bruce Hoffman
• Byron Hyde
• Eleanor Stein
• Ian Hyams
• Jeffrey Sherkey
• Morris Duhaime
• Pierre Flor-Henry
• Pradip Joshi
• Ric Arseneau
• Category:Clinicians by Canadian province

Clinics

• Environmental Health Clinic at the Women's College Hospital (Toronto)
• Complex Chronic Diseases Clinic at BC Women's Hospital (Vancouver)

Both these clinics reportedly have long waiting lists.

Notable patients

• Laurie Walker
• Oriah Mountain Dreamer

See also

• List of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome outbreaks
• Primer for patients
• Primer for the public