English to Russian Medical Medical: Health Care Primary Health Care

In some facilities, to avoid the trap of co-location versus collaboration, PHC team members in some facilities were trained by Canadian trainers through multidisciplinary training courses using participatory learning methods (27). In selected other facilities, this work has been conducted by the National Association on Primary Health Care, an implementation change agent and professional organization that conducts training. Social risk assessment, working with vulnerable populations and creating social passports were also covered in on-the-job training. It covered such topics as holistic assessment of health needs, PHC leadership, organizational culture and working in teams, integrative approaches and person-centred communication (27). The interdisciplinary training along with PHC team members such as GPs supports psychologists and social workers new to the health system in navigating working in the PHC team and the organization of the PHC services. Multidisciplinary and participatory approaches in training enabled more efficient teamwork and collaboration between PHC team members. After training, nurses also became more attentive to individual psychosocial health needs and accordingly provided tailored individual services. When, for example, a behavioural risk factor such as smoking exacerbated existing noncommunicable diseases, nurses engage psychologists and social workers to jointly design and implement care planning.