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Jean-Frederic Levesque
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Open AccessReforming healthcare systems on a locally integrated basis: is there a potential for increasing collaborations in primary healthcare?
Over the past decade, in the province of Quebec, Canada, the government has initiated two consecutive reforms. These have created a new type of primary healthcare – family medicine groups (FMGs) – and have est...
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Open AccessPatient-centred access to health care: conceptualising access at the interface of health systems and populations
Access is central to the performance of health care systems around the world. However, access to health care remains a complex notion as exemplified in the variety of interpretations of the concept across auth...
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Open AccessImplementing a knowledge application program for anxiety and depression in community-based primary mental health care: a multiple case study research protocol
Anxiety and depressive disorders are increasingly recognized as a health care policy priority. Reducing the treatment gap for common mental disorders requires strengthening the quality of primary mental health...
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Morbidity and Outpatient Care for the Elderly in Kerala, South India: Evidence from a National Population based Survey
This paper aims at understanding the elderly-non-elderly difference in morbidity and utilization of outpatient care and how such differences vary across economic classes by using a population based self report...
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Open AccessEmerging organisational models of primary healthcare and unmet needs for care: insights from a population-based survey in Quebec province
Reform of primary healthcare (PHC) organisations is underway in Canada. The capacity of various types of PHC organizations to respond to populations’ needs remains to be assessed. The main objective of this st...
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Open AccessMap** the coverage of attributes in validated instruments that evaluate primary healthcare from the patient perspective
Primary healthcare in developed countries is undergoing important reforms, and these require evaluation strategies to assess how well the population's expectations are being met. Although numerous instruments ...
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Open AccessAssessing the evolution of primary healthcare organizations and their performance (2005-2010) in two regions of Québec province: Montréal and Montérégie
The Canadian healthcare system is currently experiencing important organizational transformations through the reform of primary healthcare (PHC). These reforms vary in scope but share a common feature of propo...
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Open AccessPerceptions of unmet healthcare needs: what do Punjabi and Chinese-speaking immigrants think? A qualitative study
Unmet healthcare needs - the difference between healthcare services deemed necessary to deal with a particular health problem and the actual services received - is commonly measured by the question, "During th...
