Population Health Archives - SRDC

Stakeholders Consultation Meeting on Identifying and Supporting for PLWD Among the Homeless Population in BC

Wallaa Daramlly — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:37:33 +0000

Homeless individuals are among the most marginalized and neglected populations, and the intersection of dementia and homelessness presents unique challenges for care provision and policy intervention. This meeting will provide an opportunity to gather key stakeholders to examine these challenges, explore the existing gaps in knowledge and services, and collaboratively develop approaches to address these challenges effectively. By identifying the needs, barriers, and potential solutions to support homeless PLWD, we aim to generate insights that will inform and strengthen the implementation of a pilot program in British Columbia.

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Provincial Training Initiative: Phase 2 Evaluation

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:52:38 +0000

The Provincial Training Initiative (PTI) is a multi-year project collaboration between Children’s Mental Health Ontario and the Lead Agency Consortium that will increase the number of child and youth mental health clinicians trained to deliver evidence-based treatment designed for children and youth with complex and significant mental health needs. The mandate of PTI is to build and implement a sustainable and supported provincial training model to improve the availability, consistency, and delivery of evidence-based clinical treatment modalities across the province. The project is rooted in a vision that aims to ensure children and youth with complex and significant mental health needs will have consistent access to appropriate high-quality evidence based intensive treatment services within their communities across the province. SRDC has been engaged to conduct the Phase 2 Evaluation of PTI, including process, outcomes, and economic evaluations. Results will help inform future enhancements or expansions of PTI as well as processes and structures for other provincial initiatives.

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Assessment of the National Chart Review Study on Substance-related Acute Toxicity Deaths From 2016 to 2017

Wallaa Daramlly — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:26:42 +0000

Canada continues to experience an overdose crisis with more than 35,000 people dying from opioid-related overdoses since 2016 (ref.). To support the national evidence-base needed to respond to the crisis, the Substance-related Harms Division at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has been working closely with provinces and territories on a national chart review study to address data gaps. Detailed information from coroner and medical examiner files was collected to describe the characteristics of people who died from a substance-related acute toxicity in Canada, including the circumstances of death and the specific substances involved. PHAC has engaged SRDC to conduct an assessment of this national study’s design and implementation to identify lessons learned and support planning for future studies. This assessment will also explore the extent to which the study findings have informed, or could inform, policies and decision-making. Given the critical nature of the overdose crisis, it is vitally important to assess and learn from this first-of-its-kind national study to identify opportunities for improvement and future research to better understand and address the overdose crisis as it evolves.

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Estimating the Economic Benefit of the Early Years

Wallaa Daramlly — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:29:16 +0000

The Martin Family Initiative (MFI) Early Years began in Maskwacis, Alberta, in 2018 with the aim of co-developing and implementing Indigenous-led, community-based, and relationship-driven early childhood services supporting children. The Early Years bridges community expertise and leadership across the health, education, and social services domains to support Indigenous women, children, and families. With support provided to families prenatally through to preschool stages, the program recognizes that strong Indigenous families and communities are integral to fostering healthy child and brain development. The Martin Family Initiative has engaged SRDC to conduct an economic evaluation of the Early Years to gain insight into both the inherent and economic costs and benefits associated with co-developing and implementing a culturally-grounded, holistic, and Indigenous-centred early childhood intervention model. The economic evaluation will comprise the benefits and costs of the Early Years for individuals and families, community, and governments. This project involves collaboration with members of the community, Maskwacis Health services, and the Martin Family Initiative.

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Reflective Reports on the First Delivery of the Qanuippitaa? National Inuit Health Survey in Nunatsiavut and Nunavut

Wallaa Daramlly — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:37:35 +0000

The Qanuippitaa? National Inuit Health Survey (QNIHS) is a permanent, Inuit-determined and co-created health survey designed to build capacity in Inuit communities to develop and collect survey information and to support Inuit self-determination in research. SRDC is supporting the QNIHS teams in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut to learn from the first round of QNIHS implementation, by engaging in a process of intentional reflection and continuous learning. SRDC is using a collaborative, participatory approach to learn about the QNIHS implementation through community visits, interviews, and embedded fieldwork tools. SRDC will share back with the QNIHS teams through internal reflective reports capturing key lessons learned from the initial QNIHS implementation in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut, along with recommendations for QNIHS implementation in future.

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Crosswalk Analysis of Surveys on the Use of Controlled Substances

Wallaa Daramlly — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 12:59:39 +0000

There are several surveys in Canada that focus on or include questions about the use of controlled substances such as alcohol, cannabis, prescription medication, and illegal drugs. These tools and consistency across them are necessary to inform development of effective policies, programs for education and prevention, and evaluation of strategies to mitigate harmful substance use. SRDC has been engaged by the Office of Drug Research and Surveillance at Health Canada to perform a crosswalk analysis of selected surveys to identify:

1) similar survey items and assess their level of comparability, and

2) identify common indicators that routinely appear in the included surveys.

Results will be used by Health Canada to improve coherence across surveys going forward.

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Building the Evidence Base about Economic, Health and Social Inequities Faced by LGBTQ2S+ Individuals in Canada

Wallaa Daramlly — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 15:15:29 +0000

As a group, gender and sexual minorities in Canada – including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-spirit (LGBTQ2S+) self-identified people – are more likely to live in poverty, face greater barriers to employment, and earn less at work than their cisgender, heterosexual counterparts, in addition to reporting poorer health and social outcomes. As an emerging area of research, significant knowledge gaps remain. In particular, there is a demonstrated need for research that accounts for differential outcomes within the LGBTQ2S+ community, takes an explicitly-intersectional approach, and is interdisciplinary in nature. These gaps are partially explained by the lack of high-quality, population-level data on gender and sexual minorities in the Canadian context.

Funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) and carried out by the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, the project was conducted in partnership with Pride at Work Canada, the Labour Market Information Council, and Dr. Sean Waite at the University of Western Ontario.

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Summary of Evidence About Economic, Health, and Social Inequities Faced by LGBTQ2S-Plus Individuals in Canada

Wallaa Daramlly — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 15:01:29 +0000

This report presents a summary of evidence about economic, health, and social inequities faced by LGBTQ2S+ individuals in Canada, gathered as part of a multi-phase, mixed-methods research initiative. Funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) and carried out by the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, the project was conducted in partnership with Pride at Work Canada, the Labour Market Information Council, and Dr. Sean Waite at the University of Western Ontario. The report integrates findings from all phases of the research, offering recommendations. It also proposes a conceptual framework summarizing the key factors influencing employment and labour market outcomes for LGBTQ2S+ people in Canada.

The findings from this project suggest that LGBTQ2S+ individuals in Canada continue to face economic, health, and social inequities that are systemic and mutually reinforcing. These include but are not limited to greater rates of poverty and homelessness, disparities in annual employment earnings, lower rates of life and job satisfaction, poorer general and mental health, increased stress, higher rates of food insecurity, and lower rates of community belonging. Gender minority and bisexual-identified individuals are among those consistently reporting the poorest outcomes. Our findings point towards solutions in the realm of data, research, and policy to address the observed inequities.

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Health and Criminal Justice Outcomes of Furthering Education

Wallaa Daramlly — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:01:49 +0000

The Future to Discover (FTD) study, initiated in 2004, aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of two early high school programs designed to address barriers that hinder students’ access to post-secondary education (PSE).

These barriers include uncertainty about career options, misconceptions about PSE, and limited financial resources.

The report “Health and Criminal Justice Outcomes of Furthering Education” provides an update on the previous estimates of the impact of FTD on educational and employment outcomes, and explores how this study can contribute to our understanding of the relationship between education, health, and criminal justice.

We encourage you to download this report and SRDC’s previous FTD reports to learn more about key findings.

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Evidence Review and Mental Health Pilot Community Consultation for Girls’ Fund Programs

Wallaa Daramlly — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 14:44:03 +0000

The Girls’ Fund supports programs that give girls and gender-diverse youth tools to develop into confident, resilient people, right when they need this support most. In preparation for the next Girls’ Fund cohort, The Canadian Women’s Foundation (CWF) has commissioned an update of the evidence informing Girls’ Fund programming for adolescent girls and gender-diverse youth. Based on needs identified stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, CWF is also engaging with community organizations to understand their experiences with anti-oppressive mental health approaches for children and youth, in preparation for designing and implementing an anti-oppressive mental health pilot in Girls’ Fund programming.

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