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Our Vision:
Healthy
individuals in a healthy community.
Our
vision is a world where communities, families and individuals experience
optimal conditions for health through all stages of life, actively pursue
and manage their own health, and are supported by a publicly administered
health care system offering high quality primary health services provide
by an integrated and innovative health care team.
Our Mission:
Excellence
in co-operative primary health care. We:
- enhance
health and well-being through leadership and excellence in
people-centred primary health care.
- ensure
access to the health services people need by creating effective and
co-operative partnerships between members of the community,
interdisciplinary health service providers, and other health-promoting
organizations.
- engage
people in deciding about their care and in planning and evaluating
community health services.
- advocate
for publicly-funded health care and for the conditions that lead to
optimal individual, community and population health.
Our Values:
In
search of a better future, we are guided by a set of values.
We
believe:
- People
who use our health services should help decide what our services
will be and how our services will be offered to the community.
- People’s
health needs are best met by an active partnership between the
people who use health services and people who offer them.
- Co-operative
community clinics, run by the people from the community, are an
ideal way to provide health services.
- Health
care services people need should be: universal; accessible;
comprehensive; portable; and publicly administered.
- When
health care providers work together as a team, our users benefit.
- People
have a responsibility and a right to support and control their own
health. Our role is to support them to act on their responsibility
and right.
- Social
and economic factors such as racism and poverty can profoundly
compromise the health of the people we serve.
We will act socially and politically to eliminate the
negative effects of these factors on people’s health.
- People
should have equal opportunity to achieve health and well-being. They
should also have equal opportunity to receive health services
according to their needs.
- We
must make responsible use of the public and member funds provided to
support our services by ensuring they are used effectively,
economically, and efficiently.
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