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Towards the Best Possible Health and Wellbeing for Everyone

Spotlight on Health Equity: Improving cancer screening rates by focusing on the social determinants of health

Submitted by Jason Rehel on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 10:00.

Cancer screening rates in Ontario aren’t as high as they should be, and nowhere near provincial benchmarks. But Ontario’s Community Health Centres are seizing opportunities to increase screening rates with a robust health equity approach.

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Basic Income Guarantee: Can it be a sustainable solution to poverty? Stay tuned as Ontario's pilot rolls out

Submitted by AOHC on Monday, May 15, 2017 - 10:00.

Across Ontario’s political spectrum, support is growing for a Basic Income Guarantee. The idea isn’t a new one, and the reasons for the growing support are many.

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Confronting complacency and responding to racism: a conversation with Lawrence Hill

Submitted by AOHC on Monday, May 8, 2017 - 12:13.

In The Book of Negroes, The Illegal as well as many other works, Hill has written extensively about social inequality- in particular racism. In advance of his conference keynote, Lawrence Hill joined us for a brief conversation to set the stage.

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Ontario's Community Health Centres offer a solution so more people can access team-based care

Submitted by Jason Rehel on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 17:04.

Across the province, CHCs are leading a ground-breaking initiative called “TeamCare”. It connects 370 primary care physicians and more than 4,500 of the people they serve, with 17 CHCs who have decades’ worth of in-depth of experience serving people with complex needs.

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BIRT recognized internationally for health data innovations in Ontario

Submitted by Jason Rehel on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 13:34.

The Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT) -- developed by Community Health Centres and the Association of Ontario Health Centres to help inform quality improvement while measuring impacts of programs and services on people AOHC members serve -- has been internationally recognized by Healthcare Informatics, a leading publication in the Health IT sector based in the United States.

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Newcomer seniors get connected to health services, social life and each other through innovative Ottawa CHC program

Submitted by Jason Rehel on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 12:17.
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Health Promotion

In the months to come, we'll be bringing you stories that show the impacts health promotion and health equity programs have when they’re embedded in Comprehensive Primary Health Care.

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Spotlight on Health Equity: Black Creek CHC engages with community to build better programs and combat anti-Black racism

Submitted by Jason Rehel on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 12:16.

Kofi Frempong is a Community Health Worker at Black Creek Community Health Centre (CHC) in Toronto’s Jane and Finch neighbourhood. Frempong creates programs, like Freedom Fridayz and Dads Doing Hair, that aim to break down barriers for people who face anti-Black racism.

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New Year’s Resolutions for Minister Hoskins

Submitted by AOHC on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 - 16:30.

Happy New Year, Minister Hoskins! We hope it will be a healthy one, too. In fact, let’s resolve to make it the healthiest year yet for everyone living in Ontario. To help focus your efforts, we have taken the liberty of preparing nine New Year’s resolutions for you to take action on during 2017.

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Close-knit women's group supports a strong sense of belonging in Brantford

Submitted by Jason Rehel on Saturday, December 24, 2016 - 12:21.

A few weeks ahead of Christmas in 2010, a group of women gathered for the first time, to share tea, knitting and sewing tips, and a bit of conversation. Six years later, the group is still going strong, welcoming women from the community to a safe space for creating beautiful things and making lasting friendships.

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Seniors sow seeds of belonging in Kingston

Submitted by Jason Rehel on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 - 09:42.

In the first week of December, the Patients First Act became law in Ontario. In the Act, “the promotion of health equity and development and implementation of health promotion strategies” is added to the mandate of Ontario’s 14 Local Health Integration Networks. To better imagine what this mandate could look like in action in primary health care, we’re bringing you stories about health promotion programs and health equity initiatives from AOHC member centres across the province.

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