S5 Ep21: What Global Health Delivery systems can teach us about rural medicine in the North featuring Dr. Navpreet Sidhu
About this episode
Dr. Navpreet Sidhu discusses the impact of socioeconomic factors on rural healthcare delivery in Northern BC.
Medical schools major on training student physicians on the pathological basis of disease and the evidence-based therapies we prescribe to heal disease. But important and often overlooked contributors to health are the social determinants: poverty, nutrition, housing and related socio-economic factors. How health care is delivered on a system basis must consider these socioeconomic factors to ensure quality and effectiveness, particularly in rural communities such as those in Northern BC. That’s the interest of today’s guest, a family and emergency room physician, Dr. Navpreet Sidhu. In this fascinating episode she takes us through the importance of recognizing the socio-economic context of rural communities as a foundation for providing equitable health care and ways in which health care organizations can tailor their systems, metrics and standards to optimize patient-centered care for rural patients. Links: Harvard Global Health Delivery Man’s Search for Meaning , Viktor E. Frankl (AMZ) SSC Spreading Quality Improvement Northern Health PQI
People in this episode
Host: Qualitycast North
Guest: Dr. Navpreet Sidhu
Topics covered
- rural medicine
- global health delivery
- socioeconomic factors
- patient-centered care
- healthcare systems
- equitable healthcare
Keywords
- rural healthcare
- socioeconomic determinants
- healthcare delivery
- patient care
- Northern BC
- family medicine
- emergency medicine
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Harvard Global Health Delivery, Northern Health, PQI
Books & works: Man’s Search for Meaning
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