Community Initiatives are a fundamental part of how Alliance members foster resilient, healthy communities and improve health and wellbeing at the population level. CIs achieve collective social, environmental, and/or policy change that benefits whole communities. They are often community-led and are always delivered in partnership with community members and organizations.
Nous vivons un moment charnière pour notre système de soins de santé, qqui représente non seulement un besoin, mais aussi une occasion de transformation. Depuis plus de 50 ans, les organisations membres de l’Alliance pour des communautés en santé offrent des soins de santé primaires complets qui incarnent le type de changement que nous souhaitons pour l’ensemble du système de santé, en offrant des soins aux personnes et aux communautés conformément à notre Modèle de santé et de b
This is a critical moment for our health care system. It presents both a need and an opportunity for transformational change. For over 50 years, the organizations that make up the Alliance for Healthier Communities have been delivering comprehensive primary health care that exemplifies the kind of change we envision for the whole health system, by providing care for people and communities as described in our Model of Health and Wellbeing (MHWB).
This webinar was co-presented by the Alliance for Healthier Communities and OntarioMD.
Key elements of this presentation included:
Are you interested in measuring the complexity of your organization's clients at a more granular level?
Staff at London InterCommunity Health Centre (LIHC) have developed a collaborative exercise to measure the complexity of their clinical clients. This allowed them to rebalance their clinicians' rosters, ensuring balanced workloads. In this Lunch 'n' Learn webinar, LIHC staff described the project and provided an in-depth look at their methodology.
In 2023, the Alliance conducted a pilot study of the EQ-5D tool for capturing patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) - essentially, a standardized way to measure how clients perceive their health and wellbeing, and track changes in their health and wellbeing over time. This webinar provides an orientation to the EQ-5D, a review of the pilot study and what we learned from it, and an overview of the supports we will be providing for implementation.
This Alliance Lunch 'n' Learn Webinar was presented in October 2024. , Phoebe Lee, a community dietitian at Black Creek Community Health Centre shared insights about how pervasive weight stigma and anti-fat bias in health care settings present barriers to access and patient safety. The webinar included small- and large-group discussions aimed at helping participants recognize the anti-fat biases in their own practices and organizations and co-designing strategies to remove them.
This webinar, recorded on October 2, 2024, presents some of our sector's key learnings about sociodemographic data (SDD) collection in community primary health care settings.
In this interactive webinar, Dr. Jaky Kueper and Sara Bhatti described the progress made in Phase 1 of the Alliance Practice-Based Learning Network (PBLN) project to develop an AI decision-support tool, described the roadmap for Phase 2, and gathered feedback from participants to inform the Phase 2 co-design process.
This webinar was presented by Dr. Sean Kidd and Mariya Bezgrebelna from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Sean and Mariya are scientists whose research explores the health impacts of climate change with a particular focus on how these impacts disproportionately affect people who face barriers, such as housing insecurity or homelessness.
If you have follow-up questions for Sean and Mariya or would like to stay connected, you can reach out to them at ClimateHealth@CAMH.ca.