Patients as Partners: the BC Experience

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Patients as Partners the BC Experience

• Connie Davis
• Lori Wolfe
• Margie Wiebe
• Gene Pascuzzo
• Shandra Rojas

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Health system goals
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Foundational work for the PHC Charter target areas
Important features of PHC
Access
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Practice Support Program Change management
support
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Integrated Health Networks
Continuous
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Patients as Partners
Comprehensive
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IM/IT
Coordinated
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Supportive policy environment
- based on Starfield et al 2005
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BC Priorities Charter Development

• Patients as equal partners in personal health
  care
• Structured involvement of patient and families in
  primary health care transformation
• Community participation in creating/maintaining
  healthy communities

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Three BCprioritiesby Sue Davis9 Mar 2009
Centre Patients as equal partners in personal
health care Middle Structured involvement of
patient and families in primary health care
transformationOutside Community participation
in creating/maintaining healthy communities
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Moving on
Art by Guido Daniele