Grant: Operating Grant - Priority Announcement: Aging (Bridge Funding)

The present application is a request for renewal and extension of our longitudinal study of patterns and determinants of cancer health care utilization amongst the BC 50+ population. Over the next three years, we propose to extend our analyses to examine population health care utilization trajectories associated with aging. We propose first, to describe health care utilization trajectories across the adult life course; second, to compare identified trajectories of care across diagnostic categories, starting with results from the present cancer grant, and including heart diseases and forms of arthritis; and third, to assess the social determinants of service trajectories and effects of policy reform on those trajectories. The latter will include using study results to evaluate both hierarchy-stress and fundamental cause hypotheses, expanded from the current grant.