Programme de Recherche sur les Inégalités face aux Maladies de l'Université de Sherbrooke
“The
first (objective) is to optimize the health of the population by employing
the most advanced state of knowledge about the causation of disease,
illness management and health maximization. The second and equally
important goal is to minimize the disparities across population subgroups
so that certain groups are not at a systematic disadvantage with regard
to their access to health services and achievement of optimal health.”
Barbara Starfield (1998).
Welcome
to the PRIMUS web site!
PRIMUS is a health geomatics interdisciplinary research group that is composed of researchers and professionals in health, mathematics, geomatics and computer science. These researchers and professionals also work in collaboration with many other researchers and collaborators mostly from Quebec and Canada.
Originally used only by specialists, geomatics are now available to all kinds of users from different fields. However, very few use geomatics for studies on chronic and mental diseases. The PRIMUS research group conducts studies in these fields and focuses mainly on the health of rural, deprived, immigrant or minority populations. Always using a public health perspective, the research projects conducted by the PRIMUS research group essentially concern disease outcomes and health care utilization, as well as medical workforce analysis across the country.
Partners
Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec FRSQ
Canadian Institutes of Health Research CIHR
Réseau de recherche en Santé des populations du Québec RRSPQ
Institut national de santé publique INSPQ
Réseau Québécois de recherche sur la douleur RQRD
Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada GEOIDE
College of Family Physicians of Canada CMFC
Institutionnal Partners:
Université de Sherbrooke
Centre de recherche clinique Étienne-Le Bel - CHUS (Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke)
Université de Montréal
Simon Fraser University
McGill University
Private Partners :
"Prends soin de toi" program (AstraZeneca)
Frontline Health Program (AstraZeneca)
Merck Frosst Canada
K2 Geospatial
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Interactive Atlas on Health Inequalities
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Produced by the PRIMUS Research Group, the Interactive Atlas on Health Inequalities is an on-line, easy-to-access information system that allows users, and particularly decision makers for chronic diseases and mental health, to interact with medical-administrative databases at different levels and produce results displayed as tables, graphs or maps almost instantly.
The Interactive Atlas was made with the financial support of the GEOIDE network and the “Prends soin de toi” program, and with the collaboration of k2 Geospatial
 IAHI - schizophrenia (Power-Point demonstration) |
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| PRIMUS research group publications |
| Alain Vanasse et collaborateurs, Atlas de la schizophrénie au Québec : Inégalités et sociales et géographiques, Sherbrooke : Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Université de Sherbrooke, 2011 (in french).
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Alain Vanasse, Julie Rouleau, Mireille Courteau. Le système de santé québécois en mutation : un survol historique de 1991 à 2005. Sherbrooke: Groupe de recherche PRIMUS, Université de Sherbrooke, 2008, 110p.
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