Health System and Policy Innovations for Canadian Veterans Living with Chronic Pain

Overall Objectives for this Opportunity 

• Comparatively analyze chronic pain health services for Canadian Veterans, and civilians, across health systems. This may include, but need not be limited to, comparisons of models and forms of care, issues of accessibility, care pathways, program costs, system-level variations, and considerations of variable policy trajectories. 

• Improve the understanding of the relationships between primary care and interprofessional models of care for Veterans, and civilians, living with chronic pain. This may include, but need not be limited to, understanding the decisionmaking and communication processes across different levels of care, and consideration of the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of different models of care including interprofessional chronic pain care.