A new study in Cape Breton has found that people living in poverty and those dealing with mental illness or addiction are in need of a different kind of health-care system, one that reaches out to meet them where they are.
The study was done by researchers at Cape Breton University and the Ally Centre in Sydney, which provides primary health care for vulnerable people.
Researchers interviewed 52 people. Of those, 38 per cent were homeless.
Margaret Dechman, a sociologist at CBU, told the CBC's Information Morning Cape Breton many of the people interviewed said they won't see a doctor because they are scared of being judged.
That fear only grows over time, she said.
[For more of this story, written by Hal Higgins, go to http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...addictions-1.4115433]
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