To provide evidence and capacity building to support the integration of sustainable telehealth care services to support patient-focused homecare initiatives in the management of chronic disease.
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Mental Health and Addiction Services and Policy Investigative Team
To provide evidence to support and improve the integration of primary mental health care service delivery with specialist mental health services and community interventions and supports, including the development of integrated addiction and mental health services.
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Intensive Care Unit Patient Safety Team
To develop a system for identifying objective safety-related outcome measures to assist in the design, implementation and evaluation of organizational changes (culture, human resources, care processes, etc) that will improve patient safety in BC's Intensive Care Units.
Rural and Northern Practice and its Development
To determine how the practice of health professionals in rural and northern communities can best be organized, supported and developed to improve access to care and to enhance quality of care on a sustainable basis.
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BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network
The BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network (BCEOHRN) is a provincial network that creates new efficiencies, partnerships and opportunities in the area of environmental and occupation health research. The network aims to improve the health of people affected by occupational and environmental risks by training, attracting and retaining top quality environmental and occupation health researchers. It aims to remove obstacles that arise from diversity of researcher needs, locations, expertise and topics by increasing common resources and shared opportunities within the environmental and occupation health research community.
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BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Network
The BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Network bridges basic, clinical, population health, and social/behavioural science domains and all target populations of mental health and addictions. It aims to meet the research community’s needs for greater collaboration and partnerships, increased research capacity, enhanced linkages between academic researchers and health authorities, and more nurturing and support for clinician researchers and young investigators.
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BC Network for Aging Research
The BC Network for Aging Research (BCNAR) brings together disciplines, research streams, institutions, community based organizations and health regions with an interest in aging research. The network has four dynamic themes within which it addresses the current needs and challenges of aging research in British Columbia: bridging, knowledge exchange, embracing frontiers and mentoring.
BC Rural and Remote Health Research Network
The BC Rural and Remote Health Research Network (BCRRHRN) intends to increase the investigation of issues relevant to improvements in the health of rural and remote communities from biomedical, clinical, health services and population health perspectives. The Network encourages the development of rural health research capacity among multidisciplinary teams, based in the experience and characteristics of rural and remote regions and with an emphasis on creating and nurturing academic-community partnerships.
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BC Child and Youth Health Research Network
The BC Child and Youth Health Research Network provides an infrastructure to lead and harmonize the children and youth health research agenda in BC. Through coordinating and leading emergent research, the aim is to develop an evidence base for programs and policies that promote resilience and positive development for children and youth and ultimately improve their health and well-being.
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Disabilities Health Research Network
The Disabilities Health Research Network is an integrated, multidisciplinary, and BC-based network that fosters high quality research to better the lives of Canadians with disability. It promotes research that solves real problems for persons with disability, improves clinical practices of relevance to the health of persons with disability, and leads to improved policies of relevance to persons with disability.