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Background: Although language concordance between patients and primary care physicians results in better quality of care and health outcomes, little research has explored inequities in travel burden to access primary care people of linguistic minority groups in Canada. We sought to investigate the travel burden of language-concordant primary care among people who speak French but not English (French-only speakers) and the general public in Ottawa, Ontario, and any inequities in access across...
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Objectives Language-concordant care, or healthcare in one’s preferred language, is important both for health equity and for improving health outcomes. Linguistic minorities, like Francophones in Ontario, Canada, are at risk of poorer clinical outcomes if they receive non-language-concordant primary care. However, common ratio-based access measures can provide misleading views of minorities’ actual access levels. This cross-sectional geospatial study demonstrates a new way to measure...
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Abstract Objective Providing care in a patient’s preferred language improves health outcomes and patient satisfaction. In Ontario, access to French-speaking physicians (FSPs) is estimated using FSP-to-Francophone population ratios and compared with total physician-to-total population ratios. This approach fails to consider the fact that FSPs also serve non-Francophone patients and that Francophones must compete with the entire population to access FSPs. As a result, this approach...
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Domaine d’intervention ou d’étude
Groupe(s) linguistique(s) minoritaire(s)
Population concernée
Pays
- Canada (3)
Province ou territoire canadien
- Ontario (3)
Année de publication
- Entre 2000 et 2026 (3)