# S5 Ep21: What Global Health Delivery systems can teach us about rural medicine in the North featuring Dr. Navpreet Sidhu

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Podcast: [Qualitycast North](https://stenobird.com/podcast/qualitycast-north-4458625)
Published: 2026-07-10T16:21:05+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8926274
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Duration seconds: 1507

## Resource

Medical schools major on training student physicians on the pathological basis of disease and the evidence-based therapies we prescribe to heal disease. But important and often overlooked contributors to health are the social determinants: poverty, nutrition, housing and related socio-economic factors. How health care is delivered on a system basis must consider these socioeconomic factors to ensure quality and effectiveness, particularly in rural communities such as those in Northern BC. That’s the interest of today’s guest, a family and emergency room physician, Dr. Navpreet Sidhu. In this fascinating episode she takes us through the importance of recognizing the socio-economic context of rural communities as a foundation for providing equitable health care and ways in which health care organizations can tailor their systems, metrics and standards to optimize patient-centered care for rural patients. Links: Harvard Global Health Delivery Man’s Search for Meaning , Viktor E. Frankl (AMZ) SSC Spreading Quality Improvement Northern Health PQI

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