CRHR Podcast

13 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -

The CRHR Podcast explores important health issues from across British Columbia. Focusing on: sharing rural and remote patient and community voices, discussing noteworthy and impactful findings from our continuous work on rural health issues with communities across BC, engaging rural communities, academics, and decision-makers to elevate the discourse on rural health issues in BC.

Produced by the Centre for Rural Health Research.

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Episodes

How can we learn about rural patient priorities? What happens then? - Part 3: Interview with Kayla Miguez

December 15, 2020 02:19 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MB

In today's episode we wrap up our 3-part interview series with the Rural Evidence Review team about their successful survey asking rural residents about their healthcare priorities. Today we hear about what survey respondents had to say and an exciting legal project the RER team has begun as a result.

How can we learn about rural patient priorities? What happens then? - Part 2: Interview with Christine Carthew

November 30, 2020 23:55 - 9 minutes - 9.14 MB

This episode is part two of a three part series exploring how the Rural Evidence Review (RER) project set out to gather information on rural patient health priorities using a survey which received over 1800 responses. Part one focuses on the work and objectives of the RER, part two focuses on the outreach strategy for the survey, and part three will focus on the findings from the survey and what steps might come next. Thanks for listening!

How can we learn about rural patient priorities? What happens then? - Interview with Dr. Jude Kornelsen

November 23, 2020 22:36 - 10 minutes - 9.21 MB

This is part one of a three-part series exploring the RER's very successful rural patient health priority survey, which received over 1,800 responses from people all over BC. Stay tuned for our next episodes where we'll discuss how the survey reached so many people and what we learned from the responses.

Citizen Patient Engagement - Out of Pocket Cost Survey - Eva and Gal

November 02, 2020 21:44 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

We sit down with Eva Sullivan and Gal Av-Gay to discuss the CRHR's Out of Pocket Cost Survey - where citizens of rural BC have shared their experiences traveling to access the healthcare that they need. Gal and Eva share how the survey results were analyzed and what they learned in the process.

Citizen Patient Engagement - Interview with Ed And Nienke of the BC Rural Health Network

October 13, 2020 19:30 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MB

On today's episode we sit down with Ed Staples and Nienke Klaver of the BC Rural Health Network. The BC Rural Health Network is an organization composed of health advocacy groups from rural and remote communities across British Columbia who work to provide a coordinated voice on critical issues for rural health from the patient perspective. Join us to hear how the Network has grown rapidly since its inception only a couple of years ago, and how they have been engaging in health conversations...

Citizen Patient Engagement - Interview with April Hards and Dr. Jude Kornelsen

July 27, 2020 18:34 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB

In this episode we speak with April Hards, the author of the Hards Method, a tool that expecting parents can use to help plan for their own mental wellness following childbirth. As a resident of rural BC living in the town of Golden, April took it upon herself to make sure that she would have the kind of integrated support she needed to protect her postpartum mental health. Now April is working alongside Dr. Kornelsen to have the tool she developed made available other expecting parents in r...

Citizen Patient Engagement - Interview with Dr. Jude Kornelsen and Christine Carthew

July 20, 2020 21:01 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MB

Healthcare is supposed to serve the needs of the patient - but how do the people who design our healthcare system know what those needs are? What happens when a rural patient wants to share an idea for making healthcare better? How are rural patient voices heard in BC and why does it matter? Join us as we begin to explore these questions and more in our new podcast mini-series all about rural patients engaging in healthcare improvement in BC. In our first episode, we’re joined by Dr. Jude ...

Interview with Jane McKenzie, Salt Spring Arts Council - COVID Chronicles

June 22, 2020 15:41 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MB

This week's episode wraps up our mini-series on stories of resilience and ingenuity in rural communities in the COVID-19 era with a discussion with Jane MacKenzie of the Salt Spring Arts Council (SSAC). The SSAC has been collecting any and all accounts of life during the pandemic from residents of Salt Spring in the form of poems, photographs, stories, and more. Join us as we discuss life on the largest of BC's Gulf Islands.

Interview with Colin Moss, Councillor (and much more) for New Denver

June 15, 2020 18:44 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MB

On this week's episode, we discuss the how a small village in the interior of BC has responded to the pressures of COVID with Colin Moss, town councillor amongst many other roles.

Checking-in while keeping a distance, Interview With Carrie Chard

June 08, 2020 15:38 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

On this episode of Innovation from the Edges, we talk to Carrie Chard, Fire Chief for the District of Wells, about how her community has developed a system to safely check-in on households while maintaining physical distance - all you need is a piece of paper!