Background Persons experiencing homelessness and vulnerable housing or those with lived
experience of homelessness have worse health outcomes than individuals who are stably …

Objective To demonstrate how family medicine has been recognized and integrated into
primary health care systems in contrasting contexts around the world and to provide an …

Background Individuals who are homeless or vulnerably housed are at an increased risk for
mental illness, other morbidities and premature death. Standard case management …

However, the social and health resources available to homeless and vulnerably housed
people may vary based on geographic setting, municipal resources, housing coordination, and …

Background: Studies evaluating primary care quality across physician gender are limited to
primary and secondary prevention. Objectives: Investigate the relationship between family …

Objective To contrast how Brazil’s and Canada’s different jurisdictional and judicial realities
have led to different types of telemedicine and how further scale and improvement can be …

The Alma Ata and Astana Declarations reaffirm the importance of high-quality primary
healthcare (PHC), yet the capacity to undertake PHC research—a core element of high-quality …

Background Homelessness has emerged as a public health priority, with growing numbers
of vulnerable populations despite advances in social welfare. In February 2020, the United …

Objective To find a common global definition of family medicine. Composition of the
committee Since 2012, the College of Family Physicians of Canada has hosted the Besrour …

Objective To provide an overview of the main methodologic challenges to finding definitive
evidence of the positive effects of family medicine and family medicine training on a global …