Demonstrating the Effectiveness of Our Model of Comprehensive Primary Health Care

Le manuel du cadre d'évaluation des CSC énumère les éléments de données à collecter sur les clients, les rencontres de services et les programmes de groupe dans les centres de santé communautaires au sein de l'Alliance pour des communautés en meilleure santé. Il fournit également de brèves explications sur les points de données et la raison de leur collecte.

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This brief report provides a definition of community governance, reviews evidence for its positive impact, and describes how it is foundational to the structure and function of Alliance member organizations. 

Ce rapport compile des données issues des plans annuels d’amélioration de la qualité (PAQ) soumis à Santé Ontario par les 74 centres de santé communautaire (CSC) membres de l’Alliance pour des communautés en santé pour l’exercice budgétaire 2024-25. Ces données sont accessibles au public en utilisant l’outil de Requête dans les PAQ de Santé Ontario.

# Lay Summary

Patients are more willing to accept treatments that match their preferences. The authors conducted a survey to find out what treatments military Veterans prefer for low back pain. The survey, which asked about experiences with low back pain and attitudes toward health care providers and treatments, reached 1,632 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Veterans, and 290 with chronic low back pain completed it.

This report describes the complex, generalist roles of social workers in primary health care settings and demonstrates how this work advances the goals of primary health care. It describes challenges experienced by social workers in primary care settings and outlines a vision for the future in which social workers are embedded in all primary care teams and accessible to everyone in Canada; social workers work to full scope and are equitably compensated; and the value of social work in primary care is clearly demonstrated through robust data collection and linkage. 

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This article highlights the integrated work of the East Toronto Health Partners and their high-priority communities. It describes how they built a community-embedded learning health system in which patient partners are included in each step of the research cycle, from idea generation to dissemination. 

#Key Points

• Canada has been slow to collect the robust race-based maternal–newborn data that could allow study of racial inequity in maternal morbidity and mortality at the population level.