Karen Chu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6633671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Chu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Chu |
| SIGNATURE | CHU K |
| AFFILIATIONS | BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3360-7944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Co-CEO as the New Leadership Model to Promote Community Frontline Leadership in Integrated Care and Engage More Women Professionals
Background: Primary care leadership is central to a truly integrated health care system. Juggling leadership and clinical duties is challenging for any health professional. For women, who make up the majority of primary care providers, family responsibilities add another layer of duties, making shared leadership positions (co-CEO, co-chair) a viable and attractive option to take on larger leadership roles in health system redesign. Approach: To a…
Transforming chronic disease management with integrated care pathways
Background: Chronic diseases pose significant burdens on individuals, caregivers, and healthcare systems, often intensified by fragmented care between hospitals and community providers. In Ontario, Canada, COPD, CHF, diabetes (with a focus on lower limb preservation), and stroke have been prioritized due to their impact on quality of life and healthcare resources. To address these challenges, the Ontario government has provided seed funding to 12…
When Integration Falls Short
This initiative addresses the need for a clear, community-centered framework that empowers residents, healthcare professionals, and service providers to efficiently navigate health and social care services, facilitating better health outcomes and equitable access to services. The workshop will reference the Canadian article "Relieving the Burden of Navigating Health and Social Services for Older Adults and Caregivers" (Funk, Laura M. 2019. Montre…
How Integrated Care Design Principles Can Support Initiatives Aimed to Address Canada’s Primary Care Access Crisis
Background: Close to 20% of Canadians lack a family physician - a number that continues to rise annually. Canada has had universal health care coverage for medically necessary services provided on the basis of need, rather than the ability to pay for decades. With complexities including variability in provincial governance, multiple health and social care agencies, siloed funding and care delivery, integration of health and social care services c…
Integrating digital tools and community outreach to address cancer screening disparities in underserved populations in East Toronto, Canada
Background: East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP), an Ontario Health Team serves 400,000 individuals, of whom over 50% are immigrants. Significant disparities exist in cancer screening rates across ETHP's 21 neighborhoods, with rates 15-25% lower in areas with higher concentrations of immigrants and lower socioeconomic status. Barriers for underserved populations include difficulty accessing services, language constraints, lack of knowledge about t…
Canada’s Growing Population Without Primary Care Providers (PCPs) - How to Improve Access to Preventative Care and Chronic Disease Management
Background: Close to 20% Canadians lack a family physician, with provincial variations. The need to improve access to cancer and chronic disease screening for a growing population without a PCP has become increasingly relevant as we face a national health human resource primary care crisis. Approach: Population based approaches towards cancer screening (breast, colon, cervical cancer) exist at provincial levels in Canada but are not consistent an…
East Toronto Health Partners, working in unison
Background: East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP) is one of 2 Ontario Health Teams selected to advance integrated care in Ontario. In 2024/25 we will be implementing integrated care pathways for three chronic diseases - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, and diabetes (lower limb preservation). Through extensive provider, partner, and community engagement we co-designed a model reflecting our ideal future state. Approac…
Combining digital tools in primary care with community outreach, a co-designed approach for preventative cancer screening in East Toronto
Background: East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP) Ontario Health Team serves 400,000 people, with a population consisting of 50% immigrants. There is significant variation in cancer screening rates across our 2 different neighbourhoods, in which neighbourhoods with higher rates of newcomers and lower-socioeconomic status have 5-25% lower cancer screening rates. Analysis shows the key barriers for our underserved populations include difficulty acces…
The ethics of clinical research in the era of Covid-19
There is an urgent need for increased understanding of COVID-19 and strategies for its prevention, treatment, and mitigation. All participants in the research enterprise, including institutional review boards, have an ethical duty to protect participants and ensure that the benefits gained from such research do not conflict with the core principles that guided researchers prior to the pandemic. In this review, we discuss the ethical issues surrou…
Leveraging Innovative Leadership Models for Integrated Support Safe School Re-Openings During the Covid-19 Pandemic in East Toronto, Canada
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Preparedness and response activities of the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) home-based primary care program around the fall 2017 hurricane season
Individuals aged 75 or older, who often present with multiple comorbidities and decreased functional status, typically prefer to age in their homes. Additionally, as in-home medical equipment evolves, more medically vulnerable individuals are able to receive care at home. HBPC programs, and similar programs under Medicare, connect the homebound, medically complex, older old to the greater healthcare community. Engaging with these programs both pr…
Differences in Depression Care for Men and Women among Veterans with and without Psychiatric Comorbidities
Probationers mandated to receive forensic mental health services in Canada
Probation orders mandating forensic mental health services are used by the courts to deal with the complex needs of probationers with mental disorders, but little is known about this particular legal leverage. The main goals of this study were to describe probationers who were mandated to receive forensic services, and to examine the relationships between measures of risks and needs, service delivery, and intermediate outcomes. To achieve this, w…
Comparison of the Use of H1N1 and seasonal influenza vaccinations between veterans and non-veterans in the United States, 2010
Veterans are more likely to get vaccinated for seasonal influenza and H1N1 compared to the general population. This might be due to Veterans having better access to care or Veterans participating in better health care practices. Future studies should examine potential differences in flu vaccination use among Veterans using Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system vs. non-VA users
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Comparison of the Use of H1N1 and seasonal influenza vaccinations between veterans and non-veterans in the United States, 2010
Veterans are more likely to get vaccinated for seasonal influenza and H1N1 compared to the general population. This might be due to Veterans having better access to care or Veterans participating in better health care practices. Future studies should examine potential differences in flu vaccination use among Veterans using Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system vs. non-VA users
Probationers mandated to receive forensic mental health services in Canada
Probation orders mandating forensic mental health services are used by the courts to deal with the complex needs of probationers with mental disorders, but little is known about this particular legal leverage. The main goals of this study were to describe probationers who were mandated to receive forensic services, and to examine the relationships between measures of risks and needs, service delivery, and intermediate outcomes. To achieve this, w…
Differences in Depression Care for Men and Women among Veterans with and without Psychiatric Comorbidities
Preparedness and response activities of the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) home-based primary care program around the fall 2017 hurricane season
Individuals aged 75 or older, who often present with multiple comorbidities and decreased functional status, typically prefer to age in their homes. Additionally, as in-home medical equipment evolves, more medically vulnerable individuals are able to receive care at home. HBPC programs, and similar programs under Medicare, connect the homebound, medically complex, older old to the greater healthcare community. Engaging with these programs both pr…
Leveraging Innovative Leadership Models for Integrated Support Safe School Re-Openings During the Covid-19 Pandemic in East Toronto, Canada
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
The ethics of clinical research in the era of Covid-19
There is an urgent need for increased understanding of COVID-19 and strategies for its prevention, treatment, and mitigation. All participants in the research enterprise, including institutional review boards, have an ethical duty to protect participants and ensure that the benefits gained from such research do not conflict with the core principles that guided researchers prior to the pandemic. In this review, we discuss the ethical issues surrou…
East Toronto Health Partners, working in unison
Background: East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP) is one of 2 Ontario Health Teams selected to advance integrated care in Ontario. In 2024/25 we will be implementing integrated care pathways for three chronic diseases - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, and diabetes (lower limb preservation). Through extensive provider, partner, and community engagement we co-designed a model reflecting our ideal future state. Approac…
Combining digital tools in primary care with community outreach, a co-designed approach for preventative cancer screening in East Toronto
Background: East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP) Ontario Health Team serves 400,000 people, with a population consisting of 50% immigrants. There is significant variation in cancer screening rates across our 2 different neighbourhoods, in which neighbourhoods with higher rates of newcomers and lower-socioeconomic status have 5-25% lower cancer screening rates. Analysis shows the key barriers for our underserved populations include difficulty acces…
Co-CEO as the New Leadership Model to Promote Community Frontline Leadership in Integrated Care and Engage More Women Professionals
Background: Primary care leadership is central to a truly integrated health care system. Juggling leadership and clinical duties is challenging for any health professional. For women, who make up the majority of primary care providers, family responsibilities add another layer of duties, making shared leadership positions (co-CEO, co-chair) a viable and attractive option to take on larger leadership roles in health system redesign. Approach: To a…
Transforming chronic disease management with integrated care pathways
Background: Chronic diseases pose significant burdens on individuals, caregivers, and healthcare systems, often intensified by fragmented care between hospitals and community providers. In Ontario, Canada, COPD, CHF, diabetes (with a focus on lower limb preservation), and stroke have been prioritized due to their impact on quality of life and healthcare resources. To address these challenges, the Ontario government has provided seed funding to 12…
When Integration Falls Short
This initiative addresses the need for a clear, community-centered framework that empowers residents, healthcare professionals, and service providers to efficiently navigate health and social care services, facilitating better health outcomes and equitable access to services. The workshop will reference the Canadian article "Relieving the Burden of Navigating Health and Social Services for Older Adults and Caregivers" (Funk, Laura M. 2019. Montre…
How Integrated Care Design Principles Can Support Initiatives Aimed to Address Canada’s Primary Care Access Crisis
Background: Close to 20% of Canadians lack a family physician - a number that continues to rise annually. Canada has had universal health care coverage for medically necessary services provided on the basis of need, rather than the ability to pay for decades. With complexities including variability in provincial governance, multiple health and social care agencies, siloed funding and care delivery, integration of health and social care services c…
Integrating digital tools and community outreach to address cancer screening disparities in underserved populations in East Toronto, Canada
Background: East Toronto Health Partners (ETHP), an Ontario Health Team serves 400,000 individuals, of whom over 50% are immigrants. Significant disparities exist in cancer screening rates across ETHP's 21 neighborhoods, with rates 15-25% lower in areas with higher concentrations of immigrants and lower socioeconomic status. Barriers for underserved populations include difficulty accessing services, language constraints, lack of knowledge about t…
Canada’s Growing Population Without Primary Care Providers (PCPs) - How to Improve Access to Preventative Care and Chronic Disease Management
Background: Close to 20% Canadians lack a family physician, with provincial variations. The need to improve access to cancer and chronic disease screening for a growing population without a PCP has become increasingly relevant as we face a national health human resource primary care crisis. Approach: Population based approaches towards cancer screening (breast, colon, cervical cancer) exist at provincial levels in Canada but are not consistent an…
Health care (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (6 works) · Integrated care (5 works) · Population (4 works) · Primary care (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Cancer screening (3 works) · Community health (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works)