Comparison of Family Health Teams to Other Primary Care Models, 2004/05 to 2011/12

This report compares outcomes of Family Health Team patients in relation to other major models of primary care in Ontario over time. Very few longitudinal analyses are available that compare Ontario’s primary care models with each other, so this report serves to fill that knowledge gap.

This report is being released in tandem with a second report, Examining Community Health Centres According to Geography and Priority Populations Served, 2011/12 to 2012/13: An ICES Chartbook, which was created as a companion piece to this report. The chartbook disaggregated and stratified Community Health Centre (CHC) data by sub-population and geographic characteristics in order to address the variability in the populations that CHCs serve. The two reports should be considered together as complementary products.