Report on innovation
- Frontline Health: A Report on Innovation in Healthcare Delivery
- CPRN Full Report
- CPRN Highlights Report
- CPRN Executive Summary
Frontline Health: A Report on Innovation in Healthcare Delivery
The Frontline Health program partnered with the Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) in June 2006 to research the state of the frontlines of health in Canada. We wanted to gain a better understanding of Canada's underserved and unserved populations, their needs, and the challenges of providing them with adequate and appropriate healthcare.
CPRN's findings include some stark statistics. Only 17% of family physicians choose to practice in rural and remote locations despite the fact that 30% of Canadians live there. In our cities, despite the presence of more plentiful resources, mainstream healthcare is not well equipped to deal with the particular needs of communities cut off by language, culture, poverty or lifestyle.
CPRN's mission is to build knowledge and encourage debate around the social and economic issues important to Canadians. For this research, they reviewed more than 125 papers and reports on public health in Canada. Among many other topics, these covered specific medical issues; the determinants of health; rural, urban and aboriginal health; and statistics that paint the picture with numbers. They combed through more than 60 websites produced by different regional, cultural, ethnic, government and medical organizations. They also conducted extensive interviews with health professionals working on the frontlines across the country.
Since CPRN's report was released in October 2006, it has become one of the most popular downloads from their website. To obtain a copy of the full report, click here.
