Health services and policy research investments

A portrait of Canada's investments, assets and resources from 2007/2008 to 2011/2012Footnote 1

Canadian total by research theme

% of total investment (in millions of dollars)

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Research Theme Total Percentage
Centre, network and infrastructure-related* $217.6 28.3%
Access to Appropriate Care across the Continuum $110.5 14.4%
Managing for Quality and Safety $91.8 11.9%
Linking Population and Public Health with Health Services $72.7 9.4%
Primary and Community-Based Healthcare $67.8 8.8%
Patient-Centred Care $56.2 7.3%
Knowledge Translation/Implementation Science $42.7 5.6%
Other:   14.4%
                Governance and Accountability $29.3 3.8%
                Health Human Resources $21.4 2.8%
                Health Information (e-health) $16.4 2.1%
                Drug Policy $12.9 1.7%
                Health Information: Use of Administrative Databases $12.5 1.6%
                Health Care Financing and Funding/Health Economics $12.1 1.6%
                Emerging Technology and Drugs (technology assessment) $3.5 0.5%
                Change Management/Scaling Up Innovation $2.6 0.3%

Note: Investments were categorized according to 14 research themes. A "Centre, network and infrastructure-related" category was used to capture funds that flowed to large data centres and networks/centres lacking a domain focus.