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CANCERLESS Webinar:

Addressing Fragmented Health and Accessibility

of Cancer and Care Systems for people

experiencing homelessness


Friday, 2nd December, 12:00 – 13:30 pm (IST)
Hosted by the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)
People experiencing homelessness (PEH) are known to have an increased burden of cancer and higher cancer-related mortality when compared to the general population. These outcomes are linked to a variety of etiological factors, as well as the existence of significant barriers to accessing fragmented and poorly coordinated health and care systems, particularly cancer care. A possible way to overcome these barriers and meaningfully engage with this under-served population is through the implementation of the so-called patient navigation (PN).

A ‘Patient navigator’ is an individual whose role is to enable “timely movement of the individual patient through an often complex and fragmented health care system. Patient navigators can also serve to connect systems of care for individual patients by applying the core function of navigation, which is the elimination of barriers to timely care across all segments of the health care continuum” (Freeman, 2012).

The webinar introduces the EU-funded project “CANCERLESS: Cancer prevention and early detection among the homeless population in Europe: Co-adapting and implementing the Health Navigator Model”. The project aims to increase health and care professionals’ and researchers’ awareness and knowledge of the health and care needs of PEH. CANCERLESS proposes and pilots the Health Navigator Model–a care delivery model for cancer prevention and earlier detection–and the evaluation framework to assess the implementation of this integrated care model across 4 different health and care systems in Europe.

The presenters will offer perspectives on what this new approach to cancer prevention might mean for mainstream organisations and service providers.

This webinar will be of interest to professionals working in health, social, and community service settings with PEH and other disadvantaged groups in greater need of integrated care.
 
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