[Agency: occupational therapists' perspectives on their sense of competence and their skills following training].

Context: To tackle the systemic injustices experienced by people in vulnerable situations, occupational therapists' agency, i.e. their power to act, is necessary.

Collaboration between Public Health and Schools: An Example of an Integrated Community Social Care Model.

Introduction: There is a need to improve public health interventions to promote youth social and emotional development in close collaboration with schools, families and local communities. A close intersectoral collaboration between the regional public health, schools and school boards was established to co-construct and implement "Positive Intervention (PI)" in the Eastern Townships region (Quebec, Canada). This paper describes its implementation according to the "Integrated Community Care (ICC)" framework.

Building Families' Capacities: Community Forums with Parents and Occupational Therapists.

Parents of a child considered to have special needs are at greater risk of stress and exhaustion. Although many occupational therapy interventions can help these children, they often require significant time and energy from families. To document the perspectives of parents and occupational therapists regarding ways to offer services that help build families' capacities without overloading them.

Fertility treatment delays during COVID-19: Profiles, feelings and concerns of impacted patients.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in unprecedented measures across all health services around the globe, including the large-scale cessation of assisted reproductive technology treatment in Europe as clinics closed, causing disruption and delay to the fertility treatment of thousands of patients in the UK alone. This research explores how patients were impacted by the delay and disruption, and their feelings, concerns and reactions. A mixed-methods, anonymous, online questionnaire, live between 19 May and 30 June 2020, was used to target all fertility patients aged >18 years whose treatment had been impacted by COVID-19.

Analysis of implementation outcomes of quality improvement initiatives in Haiti: the fingerprint initiative.

Objective: To assess the process and outcomes of the implementation of an electronic fingerprint initiative as part of quality improvement in three health facilities in the Northern Department of Haiti, in terms of its acceptability, adoption, feasibility, fidelity, and sustainability. In Haiti, poor attendance of the healthcare workforce is a nationwide problem, closely related to the quality of care. Three health institutions have tried to implement an electronic fingerprint system to monitor and improve attendance.