Priority 6: Culturally appropriate care closer to home

Receiving culturally appropriate care close to home is the preferred choice for anyone experiencing cancer. It includes incorporating wholistic approaches to health and wellness and providing equitable access to basic health supports and cancer services.

Actions

  1. Recognize and reflect the First Nations wholistic approach to health and wellness.
  2. Recognize and eliminate the impacts of racism within the system.
  3. Provide equitable access to basic health supports and cancer services.
  4. Provide more services closer to home and improve the journey for those who must travel to access care.
  5. Improve understanding of cancer and the cancer journey.

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  1. Provide equitable access to cancer services closer to home.
  2. Improve travel policies.
  3. Incorporate Inuit wholistic approaches to health and wellness in cancer care.
  4. Recognize and eliminate racism within the system.
  5. Improve access to basic health supports.
  6. Improve understanding of cancer and the cancer journey.
  1. Provide equitable access to resources, programs and care across the cancer continuum.
  2. Create a wholistic system that is responsive to Métis culture.
  3. Recognize and eliminate racism within the system.
  4. Improve access to basic health supports.
  5. Improve understanding of cancer and the cancer journey.

Indicator Concepts

Were you able to receive care close to home?
Did you feel your care provider treated you with respect?
Was the medical terminology communicated accessibly?
Was there integration of traditional foods for those wishing to have it?
Was there integration of traditional medicine for those wishing to have it?
Were you able to have family and community supports with you during your cancer journey?
Were you able to access care and resources in your preferred language?
Did your loved one receive culturally appropriate palliative and end-of-life care?

Our Priorities

Priority 1
Decrease the risk of people getting cancer
Priority 2
Diagnose cancer faster, accurately and at an earlier stage
Priority 3
Deliver high-quality care in a sustainable, world-class system
Priority 4
Eliminate barriers to people getting the care they need
Priority 5
Deliver information and supports for people living with cancer, families and caregivers
Priority 6
Culturally appropriate care closer to home
Priority 7
Peoples-specific, self-determined care
Priority 8
First Nations-, Inuit- and Métis-governed research and data systems

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