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Nutrition and obesity care in multidisciplinary primary care settings in Ontario, Canada: Short duration of visits and complex health problems perceived as barriers

#Highlights

Nutrition was perceived to be an important topic when discussing weight.
Primary care providers perceived their knowledge in nutrition to be suboptimal.
Access to allied health professionals facilitated referrals.
Electronic Medical Records facilitated obesity management and communication.
Lack of time and increase in multimorbidities hindered preventive care.

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How Equity-Oriented Healthcare Affects Health

#Policy Points:

A consensus regarding the need to orient health systems to address inequities is emerging, with much of this discussion targeting population health interventions and indicators. We know less about applying these approaches to primary health care.

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Attachment to primary care and team-based primary care

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Objective: To examine attachment to primary care and team-based primary care in the community for people who experienced imprisonment in Ontario, and to compare these attachment data with data for the general population.

Design: Population-based retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Ontario.

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Impact of comprehensive care on health care use among a cohort of marginalized people living with hepatitis C in Toronto

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Using Self-Determination theory to understand the social prescribing process: a qualitative study

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Background: Social prescribing assists patients to engage insocial activities and connect to community supports as part of a holistic approach to primary care. Rx: Community was a social prescribing project, implemented within 11 community health centres situated across Ontario, Canada.

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Age equity in different models of primary care practice in Ontario

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The untold story: Examining Ontario’s CHCs’ initiatives to address upstream DOH

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Background: Unlike traditional primary care centres, part of the Community Health Centre (CHC) mandate is to address upstream health determinants. In Ontario, CHCs refer to these activities as Community Initiatives (CIs); yet, little is known about how CIs operate. The objective of this study was to examine the scope, resource requirements, partnerships, successes and challenges among selected Ontario CIs.