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Abstract

This paper aims to identify challenges and opportunities related to the integration of social determinants of health (SDH) into primary healthcare at an international symposium in Orford, Quebec, Canada. A descriptive qualitative approach was conducted. Three focus groups on different topics were led by international facilitators. Two research team members took notes during the focus groups. All the material was analyzed using a thematic analysis according to an inductive method. Many challenges were identified, leading to the identification of potential opportunities: integrate the concept of SDH in all phases of the training curriculum for health professionals to foster interprofessional and intersectoral collaboration and sociocultural skills; organize healthcare for better outreach to vulnerable populations; organize local and regional committees to develop management frameworks to produce and use territory-specific data; develop dashboards for primary healthcare providers describing the composition of their territory’s population; work collaboratively, rallying primary healthcare providers, community organization delegates, patient partners, citizens, and municipality representatives around common projects. Discussions prompted new directions for further primary healthcare research, among which are building on best practices in the literature and in the field, and engaging various stakeholders in research, including vulnerable populations, while focusing on patient experience.

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Title
How to Better Integrate Social Determinants of Health into Primary Healthcare: Various Stakeholders’ Perspectives
Author
Hudon, Catherine 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Dumont-Samson, Olivier 2 ; Breton, Mylaine 3 ; Bourgueil, Yann 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Cohidon, Christine 5 ; Falcoff, Hector 6 ; Senn, Nicolas 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Thérèse Van Durme 7   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Angrignon-Girouard, Émilie 2 ; Ouadfel, Sarah 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Département de Médecine de Famille et de Médecine D’urgence, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada; Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada 
 Département de Médecine de Famille et de Médecine D’urgence, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada 
 Département des Sciences de la Santé Communautaire, Université de Sherbrooke, Longueuil, QC J4K 0A8, Canada 
 Chaire Santé Sciences Po, 75007 Paris, France 
 Département de Médecine de Famille, Centre Universitaire de Médecine Générale et Santé Publique (Unisanté), Université de Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland 
 Société de Formation Thérapeutique du Généraliste/Recherche (SFTG Recherche), 75013 Paris, France 
 Institut de Recherche Santé et Société, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium 
First page
15495
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
MDPI AG
ISSN
1661-7827
e-ISSN
1660-4601
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2748545032
Copyright
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.