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In today's episode we wrap up our 3-part interview series with the Rural Evidence Review team about their successful survey asking rural residents about their healthcare priorities. Today we hear about what survey respondents had to say and an exciting legal project the RER team has begun as a result.
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This episode is part two of a three part series exploring how the Rural Evidence Review (RER) project set out to gather information on rural patient health priorities using a survey which received over 1800 responses. Part one focuses on the work and objectives of the RER, part two focuses on the outreach strategy for the survey, and part three will focus on the findings from the survey and what steps might come next.
Thanks for listening!
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This is part one of a three-part series exploring the RER's very successful rural patient health priority survey, which received over 1,800 responses from people all over BC. Stay tuned for our next episodes where we'll discuss how the survey reached so many people and what we learned from the responses.
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We sit down with Eva Sullivan and Gal Av-Gay to discuss the CRHR's Out of Pocket Cost Survey - where citizens of rural BC have shared their experiences traveling to access the healthcare that they need. Gal and Eva share how the survey results were analyzed and what they learned in the process.
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On today's episode we sit down with Ed Staples and Nienke Klaver of the BC Rural Health Network. The BC Rural Health Network is an organization composed of health advocacy groups from rural and remote communities across British Columbia who work to provide a coordinated voice on critical issues for rural health from the patient perspective. Join us to hear how the Network has grown rapidly since its inception only a couple of years ago, and how they have been engaging in health conversations all over the province.
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In this episode we speak with April Hards, the author of the Hards Method, a tool that expecting parents can use to help plan for their own mental wellness following childbirth. As a resident of rural BC living in the town of Golden, April took it upon herself to make sure that she would have the kind of integrated support she needed to protect her postpartum mental health. Now April is working alongside Dr. Kornelsen to have the tool she developed made available other expecting parents in rural BC.
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Healthcare is supposed to serve the needs of the patient - but how do the people who design our healthcare system know what those needs are? What happens when a rural patient wants to share an idea for making healthcare better? How are rural patient voices heard in BC and why does it matter?
Join us as we begin to explore these questions and more in our new podcast mini-series all about rural patients engaging in healthcare improvement in BC.
In our first episode, we’re joined by Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Christine Carthew from the Centre for Rural Health Research to discuss why rural patient voices are so important for healthcare improvement, and how the Centre works to amplify them.
Stay tuned for episode two next week!
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This week's episode wraps up our mini-series on stories of resilience and ingenuity in rural communities in the COVID-19 era with a discussion with Jane MacKenzie of the Salt Spring Arts Council (SSAC). The SSAC has been collecting any and all accounts of life during the pandemic from residents of Salt Spring in the form of poems, photographs, stories, and more. Join us as we discuss life on the largest of BC's Gulf Islands.
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On this week's episode, we discuss the how a small village in the interior of BC has responded to the pressures of COVID with Colin Moss, town councillor amongst many other roles.
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On this episode of Innovation from the Edges, we talk to Carrie Chard, Fire Chief for the District of Wells, about how her community has developed a system to safely check-in on households while maintaining physical distance - all you need is a piece of paper!
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In this episode of Innovation From the Edges, we chat with Sierra Acton, Director of the Shawnigan Lake Area in the Cowichan Valley, about the success of the Cowichan Hearts fundraising campaign and life in Shawnigan during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In this episode of Innovation From the Edges, we chat with Kristine Perron, the organizer of the Quadra Island Caremongering group, about how one small island community has banded together to care for each other during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Centre For Rural Health Research at the University of British Columbia is launching a new podcast series gathering stories of innovation and resilience from rural communities across British Columbia in the fight against COVID-19.
