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.
This playbook, published by CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) is a practical resource designed to inspire and guide action in advancing social and nature prescribing for improved health and environmental outcomes. It contains guidance and considerations for integrating social and nature prescribing into healthcare practices, fostering community partnerships, promoting high-income programs, and better understanding the potential for environmental co-benefits of these programs.
This is a preprint article. It has not yet been peer reviewed.
This webinar was co-presented by the Alliance for Healthier Communities and OntarioMD.
Key elements of this presentation included:
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.
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.
Are you interested in measuring the complexity of your organization's clients at a more granular level?
Staff at London InterCommunity Health Centre (LIHC) have developed a collaborative exercise to measure the complexity of their clinical clients. This allowed them to rebalance their clinicians' rosters, ensuring balanced workloads. In this Lunch 'n' Learn webinar, LIHC staff described the project and provided an in-depth look at their methodology.