Advancing Health Equity Through Primary Care: Protocol for the Spread, Scale, and Multimethod Developmental Evaluation of the Deep End Canada Network.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The social determinants of health are "the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age," such as housing, employment, and race. Canadian primary health care organizations are increasingly looking for ways to systematically and routinely collect demographic and social needs data from patients to increase appropriate and responsive care by attending to the social determinants of health. The SPARK (screening for poverty and related determinants to improve knowledge of and links to local resources) tool is a standardized tool for use in primary health care settings that was developed, pilot-tested, refined, and validated in primary health care clinics across Canada. General Practitioners at the Deep End is a network of primary health care general practition

SUBMITTER: O'Rourke JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12552831 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature