Author: 
Alliance for Healthier Communities
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Format: 
Webinar
Year: 
le 2022
Document: 
Icône PDF Download (1.23 Mo)
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Lien
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 This Lunch 'n' Learn Webinar was held on November 16, 2022. It features Russ Ford, a health system researcher with a long history of leadership in Ontario's Community Health Services. He was the Executive Director of Stonegate CHC for 10 years and LAMP CHC for 17 years. He is currently pursuing a PhD in social work at McMaster, focusing his research on health system reform.

Russ presented preliminary findings from his PhD research into health system reform. He shared some observations about the OHT initiative and his insights into what reforms he thinks are really needed, especially the need for OHTs to make meaningful commitments to advancing health equity, and the role CHCs can play in making that happen. Russ's key argument is that what plagues our health system is not runaway spending or even lack of integration among health care providers, but an insufficient commitment to equity, a lack of integration between health care providers and other community organizations/programs, and an outdated funding model that prioritizes hospitals and specialists over preventive care that addresses the social and structural determinants of health. 

Russ was joined by Dr. Jennifer Rayner, Director of Research and Evaluation at the Alliance.

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