Fact Sheet – CIHR funding opportunity in the area of community-based primary healthcare
[ Press Release 2012-04 ]Project: CIHR funding opportunity in the area of community-based primary healthcare
CIHR funding: $30 million from the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (plus $2 million from provincial partners; $3.5 million from international partners).
Description:
Community-based primary healthcare covers the broad range of prevention and care provided in communities (outside of hospitals) by a range of healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, social workers, public health, pharmacists, and dieticians. It takes place in a range of community settings; including people's homes, long-term care facilities, hospices, healthcare clinics, and physicians' offices. And it encompasses a broad range of services, including health promotion and disease prevention, the diagnosis, treatment, and management of chronic and episodic illness, rehabilitation support, and end of life care.
Effective community-based primary healthcare is linked to better health outcomes, improved equity, reduced wait times, and an improved patient experience. It has also associated with reduced costs related to hospital services and length of stay, reduced emergency department visits, reduced ambulatory episode-of-care expenditures, cost savings from early detection of cancer and other chronic diseases, and lower costs of care for diabetes and congestive heart failure among high-need patients.
This funding opportunity will support inter-disciplinary, cross-jurisdictional teams of researchers and decision-makers to conduct research in two areas:
- chronic disease prevention and management
- access to care for vulnerable populations (e.g., children, seniors, poor, elderly, Aboriginal communities)
About The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR):
CIHR is the Government of Canada's health research investment agency. CIHR's mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to enable its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR provides leadership and support to more than 14,100 health researchers and trainees across Canada.
About the CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR):
IHSPR champions and supports excellent health services and policy research and knowledge translation to identify, understand, and address health system needs and challenges, and to contribute to health system accessibility, responsiveness, effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability.