Toward a universal definition of provider-patient attachment in primary care.

Objective: To explore definitions of provider-patient attachment in primary care (PC) and help inform a universal definition of provider-patient attachment.

Data Sources: Comprehensive searches were conducted using the electronic databases MEDLINE (Ovid), PubMed, CINAHL (EBSCO), PsycInfo (Ovid), Social Sciences Abstracts (EBSCO), Cochrane Library, Scopus, Embase (Ovid), Google Scholar, and ResearchGate.

Study Selection: A scoping review was conducted.

Assessing the impact of Canadian primary care research and researchers: Citation analysis.

Objective: To describe the citation impact and characteristics of Canadian primary care researchers and research publications.

Design: Citation analysis.

Setting: Canada.

Factors that influence scope-of-practice decisions of early-career family physicians: Focus group study in Canada.

Objective: To explore perceptions of early-career family physicians on the personal, educational, organizational, community, and system factors that had influenced their scope-of-practice decisions and to compare the similarities and differences among these factors across all 13 Canadian jurisdictions.

Design: Qualitative descriptive study.

Setting: Canada.

Patient perspectives on routinely being asked about their race and ethnicity: Qualitative study in primary care.

Objective: To understand patients' perspectives on responding to a question about their race and ethnicity in a primary care setting.

Design: Qualitative study using semistructured individual interviews conducted between May and July 2016.

Setting: An academic family health team in Toronto, Ont, where collection of sociodemographic data has been routine since 2013.

Cancer screening rates among transgender adults: Cross-sectional analysis of primary care data.

Objective: To compare rates of cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening between patients who are transgender and those who are cisgender (ie, nontransgender).

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: A multisite academic family health team in Toronto, Ont, serving more than 45 000 enrolled patients.

Mental health and addictions capacity building for community health centres in Ontario.

Problem Addressed: In recent years, there has been increased recognition in Canada of the need to strengthen mental health services in primary health care (PHC). Collaborative models, including partnerships between PHC and specialized mental health care providers, have emerged as effective ways for improving access to mental health care and strengthening clinical capacity. Primary health care physicians and other health professionals are well positioned to facilitate the early detection of mental disorders and provide appropriate treatment and follow-up care, helping to tackle stigma toward mental health problems in the process.

Burden of common mental disorders in a community health centre sample.

Objective: To examine the rates of common mental disorders (CMDs) such as depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and alcohol use in an urban community health care centre (CHC) serving vulnerable immigrant and ethnoracial communities in order to improve knowledge on the rates of CMDs specific to these groups accessing primary care settings.

Design: English or Spanish, self-administered, tablet-based survey known as the Interactive Computer-Assisted Client Assessment Survey (iCCAS).

Setting: Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services CHC in Toronto, Ont.

Bioethics and the Right to Health: Advancing a Complementary Agenda.

This special section in Health and Human Rights Journal explores the relationship between bioethics and the right to health. Although bioethics scholars may argue for a right to health, particularly in the domains of universal health coverage and global health governance, and human rights scholars may advance ethical norms in their work, there has been little scholarly attention to the intersections, synergies, and contrasts between these two areas of study. At first glance, this is surprising given that bioethics and human rights share conceptual and normative terrain in articulating guidance for action on health-related issues and international policy and practice is explicitly interrelating human rights and ethics.