From experience to a learning health system: peer-to-peer perspectives and implications for healthcare navigation in Alberta, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare navigation services help individuals access timely and appropriate care within complex health systems, particularly those facing systemic and equity-related barriers. Understanding navigation experiences is essential to addressing service gaps and improving health outcomes. This study sought to examine the lived experiences of navigation in Alberta to identify inequities within existing programs and to provide recommendations for strengthening person-centered navigation within a learning health system framework.

Materials

This was a qualitative, peer-to-peer, patient-oriented research study. The study design followed the Patient and Community Engagement Research process of SET-COLLECT-REFLECT. The SET phase engaged patient and public partners in discuss

SUBMITTER: Aghabayli F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12575376 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature