Demonstrating the Effectiveness of Our Model of Comprehensive Primary Health Care

NOTE: This article is currently under review. 

Community Health Centres (CHCs) provide comprehensive interprofessional primary health care to equity seeking populations who typically face barriers to accessing care. CHCs address their clients’ needs by going beyond medical care to offer community-oriented social and health promotion services that focus on the social determinations of health.

On February 1, 2019, the BC Health Coalition, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Health Sciences Association of BC convened an invitational roundtable followed by a public talk in response to growing interest in the CHC model from communities across the province.

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As the overdose crisis worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, health care experts and people who use drugs called for greater access to a safer supply of prescription medications as an alternative to the toxic illegal drug supply.

Community Health Centres and other members of the Alliance for Healthier Communities are committeed to supporting the health and wellbeing of the people in Ontario who face the most significant barriers, including difficulty accessing health and social care, matierial deprivation, discrimination, and trauma. The people who experience these barriers are our moral owner and we are accountable to them in our work. Each Alliance member organization chooses local priority populations according to their communities demographics and assets. 

The Model of Health and Wellbeing (MHWB) is the common conceptual framework that guides our organizations and lays out our sector's foundational commitments.

This "viewpoint" (opinion) article was published onlne at jamanetwork.com 

Find the summary report here.

Executive Summary