Sentinels of inequity: examining policy requirements for equity-oriented primary healthcare

• Main Authors: Josée G. Lavoie (Author), Colleen Varcoe (Author), C. Nadine Wathen (Author), Marilyn Ford-Gilboe (Author), Annette J. Browne (Author), On behalf of the EQUIP Research Team (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Non-government, not-for-profit community health centres (CHCs) play a crucial role within healthcare systems in fostering equity, acting both as direct providers of services and as sentinels of health and social inequity. In a study of an intervention to promote equity-oriented h...