Health
The Conference Board of Canada is a Canadian hub for health research and knowledge dissemination. We build on solid partnerships across the public, private, not-for-profit, and volunteer sectors to lead collaborative strategic initiatives in service of improving the health of populations and organizations, and supporting the sustainability of our health care system with a focus on meaningful patient outcomes.
Featured Researcher
Chad Leaver
Director, Health
Chad Leaver is the Director for the Health Knowledge Area at The Conference Board of Canada, and lead for CBoC’s Centre for Value-Based Healthcare (VBHC). Chad oversees multi-stakeholder, custom, and priority research initiatives.
Social and Economic Value of Better Heart Health: Measuring Labour Market Participation, Volunteering, and Caregiving
February 21, 2024
Most analyses of the health of seniors look at minimizing their costs to society—minimizing costs to the health care system, promoting independence, or improving transitions to care homes. What is often missing is the additional contribution that healthy seniors make to both our society and economy.
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Recent Health Publications
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Research Centre
Value-Based Healthcare Canada
Canada’s healthcare systems are under exceptional stress. We must improve patient care and outcomes, cost transparency, and capacity to meet current needs and serve future generations. Value-based healthcare (VBHC) is an international framework that can help achieve this by focusing on self-reported outcomes and quality of life.