Introduction The article, “Community health hubs could provide sorely missing primary care,” by Danyaal Raza, will discuss the importance of primary care in the Canadian healthcare system and emphasizes the need for a reconstructed approach to primary care delivery. This paper examines Raza’s main argument, along with three claims that support his argument. Additionally, he will analyze and compare how consistent or inconsistent his argument is with my understanding of primary care in Ontario, Canada using the material discussed in the course. What are community hubs? Community hubs serve as local health facilities that offer residents of that area access to non-emergency healthcare services (Raza, 2022). These centers provide residents with …show more content…
The Canadian healthcare system, often described as fair and just, is actually inadequate and inefficient (Raza, 2022). This showcases the Canadian healthcare system to be narrow due to the exclusion of many comprehensive services (Raza, 2022). The healthcare system offers full coverage for hospital stays and family physician care, but excludes many key services that individuals may require in their day-to-day lives (Raza, 2022). People need more than just a family physician for non-emergency needs such as prescription drugs, dental treatment, social workers, psychologists, physiotherapists, and even access to a pharmacist that falls out of the universal coverage (Raza, 2022). Raza also claims that team-based care is necessary to achieve the ideal model of primary care (Raza, 2022). The Patient's Medical Home model of care accentuates the four Cs of primary care (Raza, 2022). The four Cs include first contact, continuity, comprehensiveness, and coordination (Raza, 2022). This model achieves the “gold standard” by