Listening for Direction: A national consultation on health services and policy issues
le 01 mars 2001
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From January to March 2001, CCOHTA joined with four other national organizations to undertake a consultation to identify research themes for future applied health services and policy research.
Called Listening for Direction: A national consultation on health
services and policy issues, the main objective of the consultation was
to help design research themes that respond to the needs of policy
makers and managers in the healthcare system for the next two to five
years.
The other organizations involved were:
- Canadian Health Services Research Foundation
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
(Institute of Health Services and Policy Research) - Canadian Institute for Health Information
- Advisory Committee on Health Services of the Conference of FPT Deputy Ministers of Health.
While all five partners pursued the same main goal, each organization has its own mandate, and entered the partnership with its own orientation and expectations.
This summary report from the consultation identifies 15 research themes.
These include eight primary themes which were repeatedly encountered in the consultation:
- Health Human Resources
- Financing & Public Expectations
- Governance & Accountability
- Driving and Managing System Change
- Improving Quality
- Healthcare Evaluation and Technology Assessment
- Public Advice-Seeking in the Era of E-Health
- Improved Access for ‘Marginalized’ Groups
Seven secondary themes which were encountered less frequently but still arose from a number of settings or perspectives:
- Primary Healthcare
- Globalization
- Regionalization
- Population Health
- Continuum of Care and Delivery Models
- Performance Indicators, Benchmarks and Outcomes
- Evolving Role of Informal and Voluntary Care
For further information contact Kirk Fergusson: 613 226-2553