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CHSPR Seminar | Tommy Douglas and the Quest for Medicare in Canada: How is it relevant now?

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Gregory Marchildon, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto Are there contemporary policy lessons which can be drawn from the history of Medicare? As the author of Tommy Douglas and the Quest for Medicare in Canada, Greg Marchildon will explore some of the answers to this question, especially concerning the single-payer and single-tier nature of the […]

CHSPR Health Policy Conference: Primary Care at A(nother) Crossroads

Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre 6163 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

The 37th annual Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) health policy conference will confront the primary care crisis. With primary care stretched beyond its limits, it is necessary for provincially delivered and funded systems to learn from each other and more quickly apply evidence to practice. Speakers will engage with approaches that are […]

CHSPR Seminar | Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in BC: Exploring 20 Years of Data

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Michael Bond, UBC School of Population and Public Health Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (TSCI) is a debilitating condition that can have significant effects on physical function and overall quality of life. Treatment and management are challenging and costly to health care systems, society, and the individual as they absorb privately borne costs that are […]

CHSPR Seminar | Creating an Enduring Primary Care Data Asset in BC

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Sabrina Wong, University of BC Limited visibility into patient journeys across the continuum of care contributes to a fragmented primary, community and acute healthcare system in BC, leading to poor patient outcomes, experience and access. Decreasing fragmentation in BC’s health information through federating electronic health records and linking to other data (e.g. administrative and […]

CHSPR/CAE Seminar: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities of Palliative Psychiatry

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Daniel Buchman, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Palliative psychiatry is an emerging subfield of mental health care that focuses on improving quality of life and relieving suffering in people living with severe and persistent mental illnesses (SPMI), rather than aiming solely for symptom remission or cure. Palliative psychiatry applies the principles of palliative […]

CHSPR Seminar | Evolving Strategies for Ovarian Cancer Prevention: Exploring the Acceptability and Feasibility of Risk-Reducing Salpingectomy

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada +1 more

Speaker: Alex Lukey, PhD Candidate, School of Population and Public Health Growing confidence in both the origins of ovarian cancer and the safety and effectiveness of salpingectomy as a preventive strategy has led to increased adoption of opportunistic salpingectomy in clinical practice. Although current guidelines only recommend salpingectomy opportunistically, the greatest reduction in mortality and […]