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Julia W. Ho

Researcher at University of Toronto

Publications -  8
Citations -  140

Julia W. Ho is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 71 citations. Previous affiliations of Julia W. Ho include Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute.

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Community Care for People with Complex Care Needs: Bridging the Gap between Health and Social Care.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated key care components to support complex patients and their families in the community and found that meeting the needs of the population who require health and social care requires time to develop authentic relationships, broadening the membership of the care team, communicating across sectors, and addressing the barriers that prevent providers from engaging in these required practices.
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"It's a fight to get anything you need" - Accessing care in the community from the perspectives of people with multimorbidity.

TL;DR: There is a growing interest in redesigning health-care systems to better manage the increasing numbers of people with multimorbidity and knowing how patients experience health‐care delivery and what they need from the health‐Care system are critical pieces of evidence that can be used to guide health system reforms.
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Precarious work among personal support workers in the Greater Toronto Area: a respondent-driven sampling study

TL;DR: Despite being key members of health care teams, most PSWs were precariously employed with low wages that keep them in poverty; the poor work conditions they faced could be detrimental to their physical and mental health.
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The working conditions for personal support workers in the Greater Toronto Area during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study

TL;DR: Examining the working conditions for PSWs in the Greater Toronto Area during the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspectives of PSWs found PSWs faced a range of challenges related to CO VID-19, including anxiety about contracting COIDs, reduced work hours, taking leaves of absences, concerns about job security, and losing childcare.