Health Sciences 2200A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Local Health Integration Network, Patient Participation, Palliative Care

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Session overview: family health teams (fhts, local health integration networks (lhins) Reforms to primary care in ontario, especially since 2004. 2004, only 24%of people graduating from med school were opting to go into family practice. Gaps at each level of the system. Need to look at structure and reforms. Why: rising costs, drop in medical grads entering family practice. Initial attempts to play around with funding models. There were efforts to make health centers: family health teams: primary health organizations . Since 2005: 184 fhts created and operationalized, five waves of implementation, last 50 implemented in 2011/2012, over 3 million people in ontario enrolled in fhts in over 200 communities. Ottawa, inuit gamily health team in vanier, pretty high concentration of people from. Nunavut in ottawa, specifically to provide appropriate care. Downtown toronto inner-city fht, there to serve homeless shelters for homeless men in the city, also mental health, addictions, social worker helping with housing and benefits.

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