Health Gateway
Diana Gosálvez Prados
— 21/10/2011
Health Gateway is a unique, Canadian online resource centre designed to meet health information and support needs common to people living with complex chronic illnesses and episodic disabilities and their loved ones in Ontario (episodic disabilities may include: arthritis, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, some forms of mental illness and cancer).
Health Gateway is an initiative of the Canadian Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation (CWGHR), a national HIV/AIDS not-for-profit organization and Bridgepoint Health, a Toronto-based rehabilitation and complex care hospital.
- Goals Prevention:
- Funding for detection programs , Creates healthy environments , Promotes health and wellbeing in schools and early years , Promotes adecuate understanding levels on the community about the importance of prevention , Focuses on social inequalities
- Goals Detection:
- Promotes early intervention through primary health care measures , Shows new evidence on the importance of early detection, including guidelines of effective practices , Advances public education on the importance of early detection
- Goals Treatment:
- Develop basic elements for an integrated health system , Provides support health policies to facilitate the planning and integration at locally and regionally , Strengthens cooperative local groups to provide integral services , Improving access to health services across the entire spectrum, from prevention to treatment , Ensures the best quality of health services , Promotes the training of health professionals , Emphasizes the care of pluri-pathological and fragile patients , Promotes electronic health information systems to improve the quality of care
- Goals self-management:
- Refocuses the health system to support self-management , Promotes patient involvement in planning services , Improving support services with an emphasis on peer support, the disabled and carers , Allows home care , Allows remote support to patients and their carers from health professionals
Whether newly diagnosed or already living with chronic health conditions, Health Gateway is your portal to navigate the health care “maze”. We hope you will find the information you need to help you manage your daily life. We have organized the information by the common themes people and families living with complex illness and episodic disabilities experience. Our goal is to link you to some of the best quality resources that can help to guide you on your health care journey.
1/01/2011
Progress
CANADA
Ontario
Toronto
1240 Bay Street, Suite 600
M5R 2A7
- Bridgepoint Health Organization
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