Demonstrating the Effectiveness of Our Model of Comprehensive Primary Health Care

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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.

This poster from Guelph Community Health Centre presents an overview and evaluation of their health promotion programs for 2023-24. 

Key themes addressed:

• Community Program Data, General Satisfaction Survey Results for Community Programs
• Social Prescription Data, results of Staff Survey for those who Refer to Social Prescribing
• Looking ahead