Cultural barriers are significant challenges for new immigrants and refugees. The British Columbia-based Umbrella Multicultural Health Cooperative (UMHC) has launched the “Equity in Practice” initiative through the support of the Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine’s Workplace Integrated Demonstration (WID) Projects Grant funded by Employment and Social Development Canada. This initiative builds on the UMHC’s existing […]

Nestled in the vibrant heart of Montreal, Quebec, Clinique Indigo (CI), a family medicine clinic, has embraced a critical challenge of comprehensive primary care: addressing the needs of the 21 per cent of Quebec’s population who remain unattached to primary care. These unattached patients face a stark disparity in access to preventive care compared to […]