A community-based task shifting program in 25 remote indigenous communities in Nunavut, Canada
Task shifting can improve access, availability, efficiency, and quality of health services in under resourced settings. Task shifting can occur formally or informally within health professions, between health professions, between support staff and health professions, or between lay community members...
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| author | Greg Toffner David Alain Koff Alexander Drossos Uranchimeg Tsegmed Margaret Andrea Baumann |
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| description | Task shifting can improve access, availability, efficiency, and quality of health services in under resourced settings. Task shifting can occur formally or informally within health professions, between health professions, between support staff and health professions, or between lay community members and health professionals. There are currently thousands of Indigenous peoples in Canada’s high Arctic, living in remote communities, north of the 60th parallel with limited access to basic medical services. In Nunavut, 25 remote fly-in communities exist in some of the most sparsely populated and harshest conditions on earth. Diminished access to or absence of basic health services such as diagnostic imaging and staff resources in remote communities can have a detrimental effect on patient care, and health outcomes. The existence of a community based diagnostic x-ray training program using a task shifting model addresses a gap in quality and access to services and subsequent treatment for community residents in this region. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ea78a9b33cef4cb7a9eaa9e5ac60e3d32024-12-12T23:57:04ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health2242-39822025-12-0184110.1080/22423982.2024.2439119A community-based task shifting program in 25 remote indigenous communities in Nunavut, CanadaGreg Toffner0David Alain Koff1Alexander Drossos2Uranchimeg Tsegmed3Margaret Andrea Baumann4Department of Global Health, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Radiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaPsychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center of Mongolia, Mongolia, CanadaDepartment of Global Health, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaTask shifting can improve access, availability, efficiency, and quality of health services in under resourced settings. Task shifting can occur formally or informally within health professions, between health professions, between support staff and health professions, or between lay community members and health professionals. There are currently thousands of Indigenous peoples in Canada’s high Arctic, living in remote communities, north of the 60th parallel with limited access to basic medical services. In Nunavut, 25 remote fly-in communities exist in some of the most sparsely populated and harshest conditions on earth. Diminished access to or absence of basic health services such as diagnostic imaging and staff resources in remote communities can have a detrimental effect on patient care, and health outcomes. The existence of a community based diagnostic x-ray training program using a task shifting model addresses a gap in quality and access to services and subsequent treatment for community residents in this region.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22423982.2024.2439119Health services task shiftingarctic healthcareindigenous healthcareunderserviced healthcare deliveryhealthcare accesstask shifting |
| spellingShingle | Greg Toffner David Alain Koff Alexander Drossos Uranchimeg Tsegmed Margaret Andrea Baumann A community-based task shifting program in 25 remote indigenous communities in Nunavut, Canada International Journal of Circumpolar Health Health services task shifting arctic healthcare indigenous healthcare underserviced healthcare delivery healthcare access task shifting |
| title | A community-based task shifting program in 25 remote indigenous communities in Nunavut, Canada |
| title_full | A community-based task shifting program in 25 remote indigenous communities in Nunavut, Canada |
| title_fullStr | A community-based task shifting program in 25 remote indigenous communities in Nunavut, Canada |
| title_full_unstemmed | A community-based task shifting program in 25 remote indigenous communities in Nunavut, Canada |
| title_short | A community-based task shifting program in 25 remote indigenous communities in Nunavut, Canada |
| title_sort | community based task shifting program in 25 remote indigenous communities in nunavut canada |
| topic | Health services task shifting arctic healthcare indigenous healthcare underserviced healthcare delivery healthcare access task shifting |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/22423982.2024.2439119 |
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