A Survey of Health Equity Practices in Early Psychosis Intervention Programs: A Starting Point for Improvement

Equity has been identified as a core component of quality healthcare in Ontario. However, translating policy into practice can be challenging. This paper reports results from a province-wide survey of early psychosis intervention programs to assess the extent to which equity has been incorporated in...

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Autores principales: Selick, Avra, Lamoureux, Alexandra, O'Connor, Karen, Durbin, Janet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Longwoods Publishing 2017
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Data Matters
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29274223
http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2017.25326
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Durbin, Janet
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description Equity has been identified as a core component of quality healthcare in Ontario. However, translating policy into practice can be challenging. This paper reports results from a province-wide survey of early psychosis intervention programs to assess the extent to which equity has been incorporated into program delivery. All 56 programs (100%) completed the survey. Results found that while most programs perceive that they are meeting equity aims, they reported limited use of practices to support this aim, and few systematically collect information on performance. Strategies to improve equity in practice are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-57495202018-11-01 A Survey of Health Equity Practices in Early Psychosis Intervention Programs: A Starting Point for Improvement Selick, Avra Lamoureux, Alexandra O'Connor, Karen Durbin, Janet Healthc Policy Data Matters Equity has been identified as a core component of quality healthcare in Ontario. However, translating policy into practice can be challenging. This paper reports results from a province-wide survey of early psychosis intervention programs to assess the extent to which equity has been incorporated into program delivery. All 56 programs (100%) completed the survey. Results found that while most programs perceive that they are meeting equity aims, they reported limited use of practices to support this aim, and few systematically collect information on performance. Strategies to improve equity in practice are discussed. Longwoods Publishing 2017-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5749520/ /pubmed/29274223 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2017.25326 Text en Copyright © 2017 Longwoods Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License, which permits rights to copy and redistribute the work for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is given proper attribution.
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