Cancer screening: How Ontario’s Community Health Centres achieve results

Ontario’s Community Health Centres serve large numbers of people living on low incomes, as well as other populations who have traditionally faced barriers accessing services that prevent illness. Even so, Ontario’s Community Health Centres achieve higher cancer screening rates than provincial averages.

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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.

Seaway Valley Oral Health Pilot Project Final Report 2019

This report describes a two-month oral health care pilot project that took place at Seaway Valley CHC from January 30 to March 31, 2019. Fifty-five unique clients visited the CHC a total of 175 times for oral health care during the 41 days of the pilot. The CHC saw an average of 4.24 clients per day, and they say each client an average of 3.16 times. The CHC complemented their oral health care services with wraparound care inckluding nutrition services, smoking cessatgion support, primary care, and system navigation to help clients access the CHC's programs and community services.

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