With increasing demands for evidence-based decision-making, the academic community must be ready to train researchers who can reduce the gap between health care research and practice. One program dedicated to promoting such training is the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF, now the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement) and Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Chair Program. Participants of these programs were selected to develop innovative research programs that bridge this divide, as well as to mentor the next generation on building partnerships with organizations outside the university through applied research.

The CHSRF/CIHR Chairs have come together in Shaping Academia for the Public Good to draw out valuable lessons learned throughout its first decade. It includes chapters on funding, knowledge transfer, policy frameworks, working with multiple stakeholders, and managing organizational settings, among other topics. Shaping Academia for the Public Good will be a helpful resource for those interested in the potential of new research approaches to improve our healthcare system.

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Shaping Academia for the Public Good will be a helpful resource for those interested in the potential of new research approaches to improve our healthcare system.

Preface
Jonathan Lomas (Canadian Health Services Research Foundation)

Part 1: Overview of the Book and the Experiment

Chapter 1: Book Introduction: Reflections on an Experiment in Research Funding
Louise Potvin (University of Montreal, Social and Preventive Medicine)

Chapter 2: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Experimenting with a Non-traditional Research Chair Model
Erin Morrison (McMaster University, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institutes of Health Research) and Patricia Conrad (Nova Scotia Department of Health)

Part 2: Innovations in Research Practices

Chapter 3: From Knowledge Transfer to Knowledge Management, and to Value Creation
RÉjean Landry (UniversitÉ Laval, Knowledge Transfer and Innovation) with the collaboration of Nabil Amara (UniversitÉ Laval, Administrative Sciences)

Chapter 4: Evidence-Informed Public Policy Decision Making
Peter Coyte (Chair in Health Services Research from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation)

Chapter 5: The Mediating Role of Research in the Socio Health Space
Louise Potvin (University of Montreal, Social and Preventive Medicine)

Chapter 6: The Back Roads that Go from a Framework to Policy
Linda O’Brien-Pallas (University of Toronto, Nursing and Medicine) with the collaboration of Laureen Hayes (University of Toronto, Research Officer)

Part 3: Novel Ways of Structuring Learning

Chapter 7: Scaling Up for Systems’ Changes
Nancy Edwards (University of Ottawa, School of Nursing and Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine)

Chapter 8: Service Learning Within a Multi Stakeholder Pharmaceutical Program and Policy Arena
Ingrid S. Sketris (Dalhousie University, College of Pharmacy)

Chapter 9: Engaged Scholarship: Building Capacity in Advanced Practice Nursing Research
Alba DiCenso (McMaster University, Nursing)

Part 4: Organisational Transformations and the Academic Career

Chapter 10: Managing to Manage: The Daily Practices of a Chair
Pat Armstrong (York University, Sociology)

Chapter 11: Promoting Evidence-Informed Management in Health Care Organizations: An Experience in Academic Renewal
Jean-Louis Denis (University of Montreal, Health Adminstration) with the collaboration of Lise Lamothe (University of Montreal, Health Adminstration) and Anne McManus

Chapter 12: A Home Away from Home: The Influence of Organizational Setting upon a Chair’s Program
Paula Goering (University of Toronto, Psychiatry)

Part 5: Conclusion

Chapter 13: Lessons Learned from the Chairs Program: An Inductive, Interpretive Analysis
Lesley Degner

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“This volume is unique and very important to the continuing development of health services research.  It offers a major advance in how health services research and training is done across Canada and around the world.”
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"This volume is unique and very important to the continuing development of health services research. It offers a major advance in how health services research and training is done across Canada and around the world." -- Allan Best, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781442646827
Publisert
2013-10-30
Utgiver
University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press
Vekt
630 gr
Høyde
161 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
277

Om bidragsyterne

Louise Potvin is Canada Research Chair in Community Approaches and Health Inequality and a professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at l’UniversitÉ de MontrÉal.

Pat Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.