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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

We offered trauma-informed support and helped newly displaced individuals connect with health and community resources. Empower patients by establishing partnerships with legal advocates , collecting and sharing relevant legal information, and keeping them informed and up to date.

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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.

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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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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.'

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Perceived acceptability and feasibility of integrating breast and cervical cancer screening for women and providers in Kenya [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting The study was conducted at 10 government hospitals in Siaya and Busia Counties in Kenya. Population Studied A total of 1,305 women presenting for CC screening and 50 CC providers at the study hospitals were surveyed.

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Vietnamese Americans Trust in COVID-19 Information Sources and Willingness to Participate in Clinical Trials [Clinical trial]

Annals of Family Medicine

With the rising awareness of misinformation, there is concern about the sources of information Vietnamese Americans use and association with COVID-19 clinical trial participation. Objective: To investigate levels of trust in sources of information and correlate with the willingness of Vietnamese Americans to participate in SARS-CoV-2 trials.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Government controls the overall financing and regulatory requirements which have two divergent consequences on the sector, constraining overall resources while simultaneously imposing resource intense operational requirements. This invariably results in levels of resource constraints with detrimental consequences for staff and residents.

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