Effects of Climate Change
Effects of Climate Change on Patients with Chronic Conditions and their Healthcare Providers– Perceptions, Awareness, and Knowledge
Project Status:Complete
Knowledge User(s)
Patient and Public Partner
Project Trainee(s)
Zain Abideen, Jacqueline Cheung, Kevin Wang
Funding Source(s)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance
Project Objectives
To identify Canadian patients with chronic conditions perceptions and knowledge on the impacts of climate change on their condition. The secondary objective is to identify Canadian healthcare practitioners' perceptions and knowledge of the impacts of climate change on patients with chronic health conditions.
Research Approach
Scoping Review
Project Lead(s)
Jenna Rines
Jenna Rines is a social worker and research consultant who has lived with chronic illness (Crohn’s Disease and others) since 2010. She earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Toronto and pursued a clinical career in acute and community healthcare settings before transitioning to work in patient and community-engaged research. She was a 2021/2022 Social Work Health Futures Fellow and is interested in contributing to transformative responses to social and environmental injustices.
Jenna Rines
Jenna Rines is a social worker and research consultant who...
Sara Guilcher
Sara Guilcher is an Associate Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. Sara and the Optimizing Health and Healthcare Experiences (OPTI-HEx) lab lead science that aims to optimize overall health care delivery, experiences, outcomes and well-being of individuals. Sara’s main areas of research include integration of care, multi-morbidity, self-management, person-centered care, patient safety and hospital harm. Understanding what matters to people with lived experience, care partners, providers and decision makers is critical to co-creating solutions to complex health system issues.
Sara Guilcher
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto
Sara Guilcher is an Associate Professor at the Leslie Dan...