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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Families received help finding housing and employment, transferring social security benefits, and accessing healthcare. We offered trauma-informed support and helped newly displaced individuals connect with health and community resources. Disasters, whether natural or human-made, often prompt us to act on our values.

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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

WHO grouped these determinants into contextual, individual, and group influences and vaccine/vaccination-specific issues. Education and Information Education and information about vaccines can improve vaccine uptake if there is a significant knowledge gap and if the education is culturally and linguistically appropriate.

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. MBC enhances therapeutic alliance and improves culturally informed care to diverse patient groups. (10, What is MBC?

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Key Strategies to Foster Effective Champions for Continuous Quality Improvement in Primary Healthcare Clinics [Research capacity building]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Healthcare must evolve to overcome challenges and take advantage of opportunities. Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is a promising method for improving the healthcare system and responding effectively to changing patient needs. Data were collected through documentary analysis and individual semi-structured interviews.

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Lessons, Message, and Recommendations from Latina Survivor of Cervical Cancer for Healthcare Teams and Providers [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Most of the existing research in cervical cancer and healthcare systems is based on large scale quantitative data and primarily focuses on younger reproductive-age women. This approach emphasizes the utilization of stories to improve care, thereby supporting experience as evidence and informing decision-making in clinical settings.

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Gathering Family Perspectives on Integrated Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

By integrating patient perspectives, healthcare systems can more effectively tailor and assess improvements in the 4Cs, leading to more responsive, efficient, and effective primary care delivery. They have that individual there that can provide those services and then potentially have them, you know if they need to get services.

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Validation of the SPARK Tool to collect demographic and social needs data in healthcare [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

income, housing) affect health, there is no standardized tool or approach in Canada for the routine collection of demographic and social information in healthcare settings. Context: Despite evidence that social determinants (e.g. census) that are currently used for policy decisions and to identify health inequities.