Community Research
Many studies in the Institute for Heart + Lung Health take place outside of the clinics and laboratories, instead studying populations, environments or occurrences in the community. Research themes include ethnicity and cardiovascular disease risk factors; sleep disease and health economic studies; effects of air pollution from sources such as traffic, forest fires and residential wood combustion; evaluating quality of life and economic outcomes in tuberculosis; socioeconomic status and disease risk; telehealth programs in the community; health literacy.
Research groups that are involved in such studies include:
British Columbia Alliance on Telehealth Policy and Research
Centre for Health Evaluation Outcome Sciences
UBC School of Population & Public Health, Occupational and Environmental Health Theme
Providence Health Care Research Institute