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Commentary – Nature prescribing: emerging insights about reconciliation-based and culturally inclusive approaches from a tricultural community health centre

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This commentary highlights the importance of social and nature prescribing programs reflecting culturally diverse perspectives and practices. Creating and holding space for Indigenous and other worldviews should be a key priority of nature prescribing, a relatively recent practice in Canada that recognizes and promotes health benefits associated with engaging in a variety of activities in natural settings.

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Social health—the neglected third pillar

This editorial by from The Lancet Public Health is a response to the flagship report From loneliness to social connection - charting a path to healthier societies, published by the WHO on June 30, 2025. The editorial summarizes the WHO report and emphasizes the essential nature of social connection for the health and resilience of individuals and societies, and it calls on governments to "make social health, with social connection at its core, a priority."

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“Round Peg in a Square Hole”: Lessons from Community Health Promotion Practice on Dynamics of Accountability, Reporting and Evaluation, and Governance

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This paper presents results from a small-scale institutional ethnography study of reporting requirements and evaluation practices in two urban community health centers (CHCs), as a sample of community-based nonprofit organizations that focus on social justice and health equity. The study illuminated complex relationships among accountability, reporting and evaluation, and governance.

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The Time is Now, but Mind the Gaps: Communities – Governance – Implementation

Supported by the increasing body of knowledge on how to achieve coherent, integrated care and support in communities and countries, the movement towards integrated care is now stronger than ever. The current stress on many healthcare systems increases the urgency. International bodies have pointed out the need to focus on person- and community-centred integrated care.

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Citizens as Active Participants in Integrated Care: Challenging the Field’s Dominant Paradigms

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How has the integration of midwives into primary healthcare settings impacted access to care? A qualitative descriptive study from Ontario, Canada

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Most primary health care settings in Canada do not offer midwifery care.

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Collecting sociodemographic data in primary care: Qualitative interviews in community health centers

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Many primary care organizations do not routinely collect sociodemographic data (SDD) such as race, gender, or income despite the importance of this data in addressing health disparities.

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Health promotion Activities in Ontario Community Health Centres: A Descriptive Report

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Community Health Centres (CHCs) in Ontario, Canada have been delivering health promotion programming as part of their model of comprehensive primary health care to communities for decades.