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Broadening the Mandate of CHERA/ACRES to CAHSPR/ACRSPS

 

Background: The health care landscape in Canada has undergone dramatic transformations in the past decade, with important implications for research and decision-making in health services, health economics, and health policy domains.

There has been a growing need for a national broad-based interdisciplinary health services and policy research association to support practitioners, users and students of health research to enhance their research capacity and professional development. In response to this, a new membership-based health services association is launched.

The new Association called the Health Research / Association canadienne pour la recherche sur les services et les politiques de la santé (CAHSPR/ACRSPS), will replace the Canadian Health Economics Research Association/ Association Canadienne pour la Recherche en Économie de la Santé (CHERA/ACRES). The aim will be to enhance research capacity within both the researcher and "research user" communities.

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The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) is a non-profit research organization, created specifically to develop, field test, and rigorously evaluate new programs. Our mission is to help policy-makers and practitioners identify policies and programs that improve the well-being of all Canadians, with a special concern for the effects on the disadvantaged, and to raise the standards of evidence that are used in assessing policies. Our offices are located in Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver.

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The Children's, Women's and Seniors' Health Branch is responsible for providing subject matter expertise, critical analysis and advice to the Ministry of Health on issues affecting the health of women and seniors. The branch will monitor current planning, policies and programs and work with stakeholders to ensure that key women's, children's and seniors' health issues are reflected within the health care system. (See Details)

The overriding goal of the Ontario Women’s Health Council (OWHC) is to improve the health of all Ontario women. To achieve this goal, the OWHC works to ensure that Ontario women have access to appropriate health care when, where and how they need it. The council also champions the accountability of society and the health-care system for the health of Ontario women, and is building Ontario’s research capacity in women’s health.

Mobilizes health care industry stakeholders in the U.S. to streamline, simplify, and standardize all regulatory policies and procedures that govern the provision of health care services. (See Details)

Carries out research into issues of health in population groups, and ways in which health services can best be organized, funded and delivered. (See Details)

Forms an endowed operating foundation that engages in nonpartisan analysis, study, research, and communication on significant issues in health policy. (See Details)

Forms an independent philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues facing the United States. Web site provides daily reproductive health, health policy and HIV/AIDS reports. (See Details)

Identifies, educates, supports, and advocates for people exposed to the drug DES (diethylstilbestrol), which was prescribed to some pregnant women between 1941 and 1971. Works to prevent similar public health problems, particularly in the field of reproductive health care. Web site includes information and advice for mothers who took DES, their daughters, and their sons. (See Details)

Coalition of groups representing women, seniors, unions, students, consumers and health care professionals from across Canada to preserve medicare. Web site provides links to their publications on diverse subjects. (See Details)