Demonstrating the Effectiveness of Our Model of Comprehensive Primary Health Care

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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

#Abstract

#Objective 

To determine the effect of opioid and stimulant Risk Mitigation Guidance (RMG) dispensations on mortality and acute care visits during the dual public health emergencies of overdose and covid-19.

#Key Points

#Question  

How are specific primary care physician (PCP), patient panel, clinic, and team collaboration factors associated with PCPs’ electronic health record (EHR) time?

#Abstract

#Background

Canada has been hosting Syrian refugees since early 2015. Almost half of the Syrian refugee population lives in Ontario, with dental health being at the top of the list of important immediate needs.

#Abstract

The First Ministers Health Accords of 2001 through 2003 (Health Canada 2006) launched the renewal of primary care toward more comprehensive care delivery models. We scanned government websites in the 10 Canadian provinces to assess how comprehensive and integrated renewal models were for health and social services in 2018. More comprehensive primary care delivery models were the norm in five out of 10 provinces.