Alliance for Healthier Communities

Ce guide a été rédigé par l’Alliance pour des communautés en santé. Nous représentons des organisations de soins de santé primaires régies par la communauté. Nous comptons parmi nos membres, des centres de santé communautaire, des centres d’accès aux services de santé pour les Autochtones, des équipes de santé familiale communautaire, et des cliniques dirigées par du personnel infirmier praticien.

This guidebook has been prepared by the Alliance for Healthier Communities. We represent community-governed primary health care organizations. Our membership includes Ontario’s Community Health Centres, Aboriginal Health Access Centres, Community Family Health Teams and Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics.

We share a strong commitment to advance health equity. And we recognize that access to the highest attainable standards of health is a fundamental human right. Our vision is the best possible health and wellbeing for everyone living in Ontario.

#EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

#Social prescribing in context

 This Lunch 'n' Learn Webinar was held on November 16, 2022. It features Russ Ford, a health system researcher with a long history of leadership in Ontario's Community Health Services. He was the Executive Director of Stonegate CHC for 10 years and LAMP CHC for 17 years. He is currently pursuing a PhD in social work at McMaster, focusing his research on health system reform.

#Introduction

#Your pension savings can contribute to or help reduce climate change and its harmful impacts on health equity.

Presentation by Josephine Pham, Knowledge Mobilization & Project Coordinator for the social prescribing programs at the Alliance for Healthier Communities. Presented as part of a panel discussion at the Family Caregiver Conference on October 29, 2022. 

Topics addressed in this presentation:

The advance of electronic record-keeping and secure methods for sharing and linking health data have led to the creation of massive datasets. These datasets combine sociodemographic, practice, and administrative data about millions of people in thousands of communities. Using traditional methods to sift through it all in search of meaningful patterns and useable new knowledge can be overwhelming. Artificial intelligence (AI) - programming that enables computers to learn - helps us find the meaning in this universe of data.