Lyme Disease in Canada

This article contextualizes climate change and its impact on population health by highlighting the emergence of climate-sensitive infectious diseases. Using Lyme disease in Quebec as an example, it aims to achieve two objectives. First, the article demonstrates that the Quebec, and even Canadian, healthcare system is deficient regarding accessibility to treatment for this disease. Consequently, it emphasizes the need to optimize population health by proposing the enhancement of this pathology's preventive dimension by defining an intervention framework focused on planetary health.