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Patient Advocacy Group Leaders Perceptions on Primary Cares Role in Caring for Patients with a History of Breast Cancer [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Patient advocacy groups engage patients, families, and caregivers in navigating the cancer landscape, focusing on early detection/screening, as well as psychosocial and financial support during treatment. As these groups have grown, they have major influences over their communities, funding, and policy.

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Mapping Patient Access to Care and Quality of Care based on Distance from Family Physician [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In Ontario, patients who move increasingly keep their family physician (FP) because no one in their new community is accepting new patients, creating long distances to seek primary care. Healthcare quality outcomes included rates of colorectal, breast and cervical cancer screening.

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You Know DPC is working when…

Noreta Family Medicine

At Noreta Family Medicine, we offer hour-long appointments, allowing time to build a meaningful doctor-patient relationship and creating a space where patients can openly express their concerns and receive the attention they deserve. “ patients have easy access to their family doctor. patients feel heard and valued.

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Beyond Training: How Context Matters for Early Detection of Alzheimers Disease in Primary Care [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative Healthcare System Preparedness (DAC-SP) aims to catalyze global healthcare system transformation, providing Alzheimer’s patients and their families quicker access to life-changing innovations and therapies. clinical consensus, financing mechanisms) and the organization (e.g.,

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Debating the pros and cons of Medicare for All

The Health Policy Exchange

Our recent Georgetown Health Policy Journal Club discussed two editorials in the October 1 issue of American Family Physician that offered contrasting answers to the question: "Would Medicare for All Be the Most Beneficial Health Care System for Family Physicians and Patients?" health care bill. trillion annually.