Understanding the enablers of highest-quality care

This Alliance Lunch 'n' Learn Webinar was presented in October 2024. , Phoebe Lee, a community dietitian at Black Creek Community Health Centre shared insights about how pervasive weight stigma and anti-fat bias in health care settings present barriers to access and patient safety. The webinar included small- and large-group discussions aimed at helping participants recognize the anti-fat biases in their own practices and organizations and co-designing strategies to remove them.

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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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Leadership styles, beliefs, and behaviours are an important and critical component to the delivery of quality care in any primary care organisation.

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The Black-Focused Social Prescribing (BFSP) project is a unique initiative by the Alliance for Healthier Communities that intertwines Afrocentric principles with social prescribing. Going beyond conventional social prescribing models, BFSP addresses specific health needs within Black communities. It is rooted in the Alliance Black Health Strategy, advocates for Black health, and is guided by Afrocentric principles.

This is Part I of a special issue of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, titled Social prescribing in Canada: An emerging approach to health and well-being.   

Editors for this special issue are Kate Mulligan, Kiffer G. Card, and Sandra Allison. It includes an editorial statement, evidence synthesis, original qualitative research, commentary, and an at-a-glance article. 

Dr. Jennifer Rayner, the Alliance's Director of Research and Policy, presented this at the 2024 Alliance Conference: Co-Designing the Future of Primary Health Care, as part of the Governance stream. It's an overview of the key things board directors at Alliance-member organizations need to know about sociodemographic (SD) data collection, including: