Projects
CRC on Disability Policy for Children and Youth
Improving access to services that facilitate participation in society for youth with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
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Measure what Matters
Understanding the extent to which provinces are meeting the needs of Canadians with disabilities through data visualization.
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Improving Access to Disability Services
Assessing the continuum of care and eligibility for services + supports for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families.
Learn more about the ACCESS project
Evaluating Care Coordination
Improving Health Outcomes and Coordinating Care for Children with Complex Health and Social Needs.
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Patient Oriented Evaluation & Policy Framework
Evaluating patient reported outcomes in youth mental health.
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KBHN Health Economics and Policy Project
Assessing the impacts of KBHN interventions aiming to improve children’s development, promote healthy outcomes, support family members, and raise awareness.
Learn more about the Health Economics and Policy project
Disability Tax Credit Utilization
Who benefits from government disability financial support? An assessment of who is utilizing the Canadian Disability Tax Credit.
Learn more about the Disability Tax Credit Utilization project
Nothing Without Us: Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19
Inclusive, equitable COVID-19 policy responses for youth with disabilities and their families.
Learn more about the Nothing without us project
CHILD-BRIGHT Health Economics Project
Examining the economic impact of CHILD-BRIGHT interventions from the perspective of society, provincial payers and families.
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Informing Policy Design
Aiming to inform policy design by building disability data analytics capacity in partnership with government ministries.
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Experiences with
Disability Programs
Examining the experiences of parents and caregivers of youth with disabilities when accessing government-funded disability programs across Canada.
Read more on the Experiences with Disability Programs project
DiPo is moreover involved as co-investigator or partner in the following projects:
Measure what matters: Identifying Key Indicators to Align Health and Social Policy and Service Delivery with Child Health and Wellbeing.
Led by Brent Hagel, Professor, Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine; Director, Healthy Children, Families and communities Program, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary.
Leveraging the impact of diversity in neurodevelopmental disability by integrating machine learning in personalized medicine.
The general objective of this project is to show that the use of machine learning (ML) approach(es) will allow to combine clinical diagnosis and personalized medicine, to further treat and improve health outcomes of patients with neurodevelopmental disability (NDD), which is known to affect about 13% of the population.