Primary Health Care Initiatives & Projects
Indigenous Primary Health Care
The Alberta Indigenous Primary Health Care and Policy Research (IPHCPR) Network is a CIHR Networks Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) funded network led by Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe to promote a renewed and transformed primary healthcare system to achieve Indigenous health equity. The network advances research that links knowledge to policy and practice, fomenting evidence-informed systems innovations based in equity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing. Dr. Montesanti is a Co-PI and the network’s policy lead, exploring policy alternatives that inform the delivery of PHC for Indigenous peoples in the province through knowledge synthesis and engaging PHC stakeholders.
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Facilitating Integrated Care through Primary Health Care
Facilitating integrated care through primary healthcare teams study is a policy analysis of four Canadian provinces to examine the policies and structures that support health and social services integration for complex patients through PHC teams in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec, Canada
ENhancing COMmunity health through Patient navigation, Advocacy, and Social Support (ENCOMPASS) Study
Researchers from the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health have partnered with Edmonton Oliver PCN and the Westview PCN to develop, implement, and evaluate a community health navigator program for patients with multiple chronic health conditions. The intervention provides patients with a CHN for 6 months. The CHN will help patients navigate the health system, facilitate communication with providers, improve patient understanding of their conditions and treatment plans, meanwhile cultivating a partnership with patients and empowering them to take ownership of their health care and self-management of their conditions.