As a leader of independent, policy relevant research and graduate training, UBC’s Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) is dedicated to fostering visionary research within a collaborative and innovative research environment. Our work engages and informs health policy on issues that matter to Canadians.

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Looking back and moving forward: Addressing health inequities after COVID-19

CHSPR faculty member Kim McGrail, CHSPR PhD student Jeffrey Morgan, and colleague Arjumand Siddiqui offer three questions to guide thinking about health and health inequities after 2020: (1) what do we mean by “health” and “health inequality and inequity”? (2) what are the structures and policies we put in place to support or promote health, and how effective are they? And (3) who has the power to shape structures and policies, and whose interests do those structures and policies serve?

McGrail K, Morgan J, Siddiqi A. Looking back and moving forward: Addressing health inequities after COVID-19. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2022 May;9:100232. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100232. Epub 2022 Mar 17. Read more

Recent Publications

Miregwa BN, Holbrook A, Law MR, Lavis JN, Thabane L, Dolovich L, Wilson MG. The impact of OHIP+ pharmacare on use and costs of public drug plans among children and youth in Ontario: a time-series analysis. CMAJ Open. 2022 Sep 27;10(3):E848-E855. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20210295. Read more

Huang X, Lavergne MR, Peterson S, Ahuja M, McGrail K. Does using information on long-standing chronic conditions improve predictive performance of the ACG case-mix system? Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Sep 2022. Read more

Hedden L, McCracken RK, Spencer S, Narayan S, Gooderham E, Bach P, Boyd J, Chakanyuka C, Hayashi K, Klimas J, Law M, McGrail K, Nosyk B, Peterson S, Sutherland C, Ti L, Yung S, Cameron F, Fernandez R, Giesler A, Strydom N. Advancing virtual primary care for people with opioid use disorder (VPC OUD): a mixed-methods study protocol. BMJ Open. 2022 Sep 26;12(9):e067608. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067608. Read more

Tsui TCO, Zeitouny S, Bremner KE, Cheung DC, Mulder C, Croxford R, Del Giudice L, Lapointe-Shaw L, Mendlowitz A, Wong WWL, Perlis N, Sander B, Teckle P, Tomlinson G, Walker JD, Malikov K, McGrail KM, Peacock S, Kulkarni GS, Pataky RE, Krahn MD. Initial health care costs for COVID-19 in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada: an interprovincial population-based cohort study. CMAJ Open. 2022 Sep 20;10(3):E818-E830. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20210328. Read more

Hoben M, Baumbusch J, B Hogan D, Gruneir A, A Chamberlain S, Corbett K, E Griffith L, McGrail KM, E Amuah J, E Lane N, J Maxwell C. Caregivers' Concerns About Assisted Living Residents' Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study. J Fam Nurs. 2022 Sep 20:10748407221124159. doi: 10.1177/10748407221124159. Online ahead of print. Read more

Jessri M, Hennessy D, Eddeen AB, Bennett C, Garriguet D, Sanmartin C, Manuel D. Linkage of the nationally representative Canadian Community Health Survey - Nutrition 2004 to routinely collected mortality records. Health Rep. 2022 Sep 15;33(9):11-20. doi: 10.25318/82-003-x202200900002-eng. Read more

Randall E, Bryan S, Black C, Goldsmith LJ. What matters to patients following total knee arthroplasty? A grounded theory of adapting to a knee replacement. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2022 Sep 6;23(1):845. doi: 10.1186/s12891-022-05695-x. Read more

Luz TCB, de Castro AKS, Marques IC, Cota BB, Alves JC, Law MR. Performance of a pharmaceutical services regionalization strategy policy in Minas Gerais, Brazil: Pre-post analysis from ERAF project. Front Pharmacol. 2022 Sep 2;13:953990. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.953990. Read more

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