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Research, training and policy advice to advance a sustainable health care system
Meet some of the members of our team
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Jeff practices clinically as Emergency Physician in the Emergency Department at Vancouver General Hospital and as Clinical Toxicologist at the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre. Jeff holds a scholar award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research. His research focuses on injury prevention with a special interest in drug impaired driving. Jeff works closely with community and government injury prevention groups in his role as British Columbia Medical Association representative on the BC Injury Prevention Leadership and Action Network (BCIPLAN).
Kim McGrail, Stirling Bryan and Jennifer Davis have penned the lead article in the latest issue of Healthcare Papers calling for more extensive use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in Canadian healthcare. Their premise is that improvement depends on information, and more specifically information about outcomes of care. Current outcomes information is limited and tends to focus on measures of failure rather than measures of success. They argue that PROMs must become part of regular data collection in the healthcare system, and offer three recommendations for action.
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Patient-centered and outcome-based performance metrics in health care can benefit the health care system.
Jennifer Davis’ work aims is to improve health through outcomes research using economic analysis techniques, assessing health system performance in chronic and acute conditions. Her fellowship will explore the benefit of using metrics in Falls Prevention, Total Knee Arthroplasty and Ophthalmology clinics.
Cameron has broad research interests in health systems performance and the use of evidence in health policy and practice related decisions. During his postdoctoral work he aims to further explors factors associated with health systems performance and the impact of systems thinking concepts on complex performance issues, such as large system transformation.
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The overarching theme of Iraj’s research is addressing health disparities in Canadian vulnerable populations, with a special focus on multicultural and gender issues. His second research objective at BC focuses on the role of social and environmental health indicators, to develop and test tools to evaluate the impacts of cultural beliefs, gender, and traditional practices on population health outcomes and the determinants of health.
Policy Options to Attract Health Workers to Rural Liberia: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment with Mandy Ryan
Thursday 22nd March 2012 12 Noon - 1 PM
This seminar presents the results of a discrete choice experiment conducted to elicit nurses’ preferences for working in remote and rural areas in Liberia. The predicted take-up rate of rural area jobs under alternative policies is estimated, and compared with costs. For the whole sample, pecuniary incentives are predicted to be the most cost effective policy interventions. The paper also exploits questions on intrinsic motivation and attitudes towards a rural lifestyle to investigate which individuals are most likely to move to rural areas. The sub-sample analysis confirms that pecuniary incentives are the most cost effective policy intervention.