Barriers to offering French language physician services in rural and northern Ontario

Barriers to offering French language physician services in rural and northern Ontario.

INTRODUCTION Rural and Northern Ontario francophones face many health-related challenges including poor health status, a poor supply of French-speaking physicians, and the potential for an inability or reduced ability to effectively communicate with anglophone healthcare providers. As such, it can reasonably be expected that rural and Northern Ontario francophones experience barriers when recei...

Barriers to patient care in southwestern Ontario rural emergency departments: physician perceptions.

INTRODUCTION We sought to determine the perceptions of physicians staffing rural emergency departments (EDs) in southwestern Ontario with respect to factors affecting patient care in the domains of physical resources, available support and education. METHODS A confidential 30-item survey was distributed through ED chiefs to physicians working in rural EDs in southwestern Ontario. Using a 5-po...

Rethinking Health Care in Rural and Northern Ontario Submission to the Rural and Northern Health Care Panel

Strategies for improved French-language health services: Perspectives of family physicians in northeastern Ontario.

OBJECTIVE To identify strategies to improve the quality of health services for Francophone patients. DESIGN A series of semistructured key informant interviews. SETTING Northeastern Ontario. Participants A total of 18 physicians were interviewed. Ten physicians were interviewed in French, 7 physicians were women, and 10 physicians were located in urban communities. METHODS Purposive and s...

Survey of rural family physician-obstetricians in Southwestern Ontario.

INTRODUCTION The objectives of this paper are 1) to analyze the characteristics of rural physicians who currently practise obstetrics, their training background and the environment in which they work and 2) to develop strategies to sustain rural obstetrical services. METHODS Information was gathered using both a survey and brief individual interviews. PARTICIPANTS A survey was sent to 56 fa...