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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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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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"We feel alone and not listened to": Somali, Hmong and Latin American Parents Perspectives on Pediatric Serious Illness [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The experience of ethnically diverse parents of children with serious illness in the US healthcare system has not been well studied. Study Methods and Analysis: Qualitative community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) study with focus groups and individual interviews. Intervention: NA. Outcome Measures: NA.

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Developing a patient-reported outcome measure for patient experiences of social needs care [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context With the goal of advancing health equity, the US healthcare sector has expanded activities to identify and intervene in patients’ experiences of social adversity, sometimes referred to as "social care". Yet, no measure of patients’ experiences with social care has been developed to date.

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Nurturing collaboration between non-profit organizations and primary healthcare partners: An instrumental case study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: People living in precarious socio-economic conditions are at greater risk of developing mental and physical health disorders, and of having complex healthcare and social needs (hereafter complex needs). Appropriate care for these people calls for integrated care from the healthcare, social services, and community networks.

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Discover Direct Primary Care: An Excellent Choice for Uninsured, Underinsured, and High Deductible Health Plan Holders - Detroit and Royal Oak

Plum Health

Raquel Orlich treats a Plum Health member Are you a self-employed individual, uninsured, underinsured, or enrolled in a high deductible catastrophic health plan in the Detroit or Royal Oak area? While your insurance covers significant events, DPC takes care of routine healthcare needs affordably.