French-Language Primary Care Access

Benefits

Comparisons

Evidence quality

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Highlighted claims

• The study compares access to any family physician with access to physicians who self-reported being able to practise in French. — Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada
• French-speaking Ontarians generally must travel farther for language-concordant family physician care than the general population travels for English primary care. — Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada
• Language-concordant care is treated as a health equity issue for linguistic minorities in Ontario. — Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada
• French-language healthcare access in Ontario is connected to legal and policy obligations for certain institutions. — Going the distance: a cross-sectional geospatial analysis quantifying province-wide inequities in travel-based access, and fragility of access to French-language primary care provided by family physicians in Ontario, Canada