Grant: Network Catalyst - Knowledge Translation

The bulk of the costs to our health care system can be attributed to the people who deliver the services - or what is referred to as health human resources. Despite the proportion of the costs associated with who delivers health care and how they do it, there is very little coordination of what we know and don't know in this area. We are proposing to develop a network of those doing research in this area and those who would benefit from this knowledge. The network will span across Canada and make some of the most promising practices known to key knowledge users in both english and french. The key areas we will focus on at the outset includes the areas of 1) the mobility of health care workers within a province/territory, between provinces/territories and internationally; 2) the different models of how health professionals can work together; 3) the specific issues facing rural and remote communities and in particular those with an aboriginal background; and 4) how we can best decide how many health care workers we need in particular areas now and in the future.