Grant: Team Grant: Community-Based Primary Healthcare - LOI

Over the last decade there have been many changes in primary healthcare delivery. These innovations have been different in different provinces and it is important to know how effective these innovations have been. Chronic disease is an ever increasing and important health problem in Canada and most of the care of patients with chronic disease happen at the primary care level. The Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network, an established network of 10 primary care research networks, is positioned to be able to study these innovations (such as interprofessional primary health care teams) and the impact on the prevention and management of chronic disease. Sociodemographic information such as income, housing, and education with chronic disease will also be used to assess whether these factors influence the type of model necessary to improve chronic disease outcomes.