RESEARCH 

Health services research is multidisciplinary scientific investigation of social factors, financing systems, organizational structures and processes, health technologies, and personal behaviors that affect access to health care, quality and cost of health care, and quantity and quality of life.¹  Goals of health services research are to identify the most effective ways to organize, manage, finance, and deliver high quality care; reduce medical errors; and improve patient safety.²  Health services research is grounded in theory, with the discipline existing to perform research that can be applied by health care providers, managers, policy makers, and others who make decisions and deliver health care or manage health system. Health services researchers come from a variety of backgrounds including economics, political science, epidemiology, public health, medicine, biostatistics, operations, and management.³

Research in the School of Health Administration (SHA) is consistent with goals of the research funding agencies that support our programs of research such as the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, and Canadian Institutes for Health Research.

For the School of Health Administration Research Profile, click here.