In 2010, the BC Ministry of Health set out a three-year service plan which included a focus on integrating family physician and community health care to address the increasing needs of the population due to aging, a rising burden of illness from chronic disease and an increased prevalence of frailty.

As anyone who has been touched with breast cancer knows, the experience of breast cancer is not just about oncology treatment, but about the whole journey from timely diagnosis to post-treatment care, including community-based care.

Every year ovarian cancer affects over 2,600 Canadian women and the five-year overall survival rates for this disease remain below 50%. 

Almost a third of Canadians have experienced a mental health disorder at some point during their lifetimes, according to data from the Canadian Community Health Survey. In 2006 alone, it is estimated that mental illnesses accounted for a $52 billion economic burden.

Researchers are now able to access detailed project status information online via PopData’s new project management system, AppTracker.

Data access has been approved for the BC component of a research project to examine the care of frail seniors across a spectrum of care settings in five Canadian provinces.