Vaughan Community Health Centre To Host Delegation from South Korea

#Vaughan Community Health Centre To Host Delegation from South Korea

TORONTO (Wednesday, November 27)— On November 28th, Vaughan Community Health Centre will be hosting  14 delegates from South Korea’s Ministry of Health, Public Health Centres, and Ministry of Health Promotion.  This is part of an international tour to learn about innovative approaches to promoting health & wellbeing.

The delegation is visiting the centre to learn more about the Model of Community Health and Wellbeing that is applied at Ontario’s Community Health Centres and other community-governed models throughout the province.

Community Health Centres (CHCs) combine primary healthcare services with a wide range of other health promotion and community development services under one roof. The CHC model has been shown to deliver superior health promotion and chronic disease prevention and management services by using a community-governed model that makes the centre more easily oriented towards what community members identify as their most important needs.

The hosting centre, Vaughan CHC was also recently selected by AOHC to serve as one of five demonstration sites geared to using the Canadian Index of Wellbeing. The index is one of the world's leading initiatives to measure societal progress. It uses eight domains to measure quality of life categories: healthy population, education, leisure and culture, environment, community vitality, living standards, time use and democratic engagement.   

Vaughan CHC will feature work with the CIW that helps to shift the focus from the treatment of illness to the promotion of health and wellness.

“We consider it to be a tremendous honour to have been selected as one of the sites for this international tour from South Korea and appreciate the opportunity for knowledge sharing which will be mutually productive and enlightening,” says Tony Carella, Chairperson, Vaughan CHC.

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