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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Residents and local leaders joined forces to send food and clothing to the island and to welcome newly arrived families to their town. The Holyoke Health Center, in collaboration with the Family Resource Center at Enlace de Familias , played a pivotal role in this local relief effort.

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Can the Practice of Primary Care Medicine ever be Practical Again?

A Country Doctor Writes

After all, we already have background information on our patients and shouldn’t have to start from scratch. So, instead, our patients end up going to walk-in clinics, seeing providers they don’t know who practice without the shackles of the family doctor of record.

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I Could Do Much Better but the System Doesnt Allow Me [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Nursing home residents and their families prioritised personalised care that meets their diverse physical, emotional, social, and cognitive needs, while preserving dignity and functional abilities. Our systems-thinking informed research identified the interdependent reasons standing in the way of ‘doing much better’

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Envisioning roles for patient partners in primary health care systems of the future: A structured priority setting exercise [Patient engagement]

Annals of Family Medicine

Engaging patients as partners in PHC research is increasingly common and can include developing research questions, acting in governance roles, helping to set research priorities, preforming parts of the research and/or helping to share results.

Patients 130
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Understanding the care for older people in rural China: The role of primary care providers as "the third sphere" [Global health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: A three-month ethnographic study collected qualitative data through observation and informal interviews. We advise the government to engage "quasi-officials" in the "third sphere" with the primary care policy-making process in the future. A thematic analysis was used for data analysis.

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I-CREAte: Engaging Families to Build Healthy Communities: Building a Community led action plan [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Using community-based participatory methods, the I-CREAte (Innovations for Community Resilience, Equity and Advocacy) team conducted a multiple case study exploring the lived experiences of families experiencing adversity.

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Primary care workforce planning within integrated care models: Application of a workforce planning toolkit [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: An exploratory single case study design with concurrent mixed-methods, including key informant interviews, publicly available data and surveys. A set of policy recommendations focused on: 1) HHR governance structure within OHTs, 2) consolidation of the primary care workforce, and 3) data and reporting.'