ELLICSR. Health, Wellness & Cancer Suvivorship Centre

ELLICSR is designed as a collaborative space for health, wellness and cancer survivorship research bringing together researchers, health care providers, community organizations and cancer survivors.
Oncological diseases
- Goals Prevention:
- Funding for detection programs , Creates healthy environments , Promotes health and wellbeing in schools and early years , Promotes adecuate understanding levels on the community about the importance of prevention , Focuses on social inequalities
- Goals Detection:
- Promotes early intervention through primary health care measures , Shows new evidence on the importance of early detection, including guidelines of effective practices , Advances public education on the importance of early detection
- Goals Treatment:
- Strengthens cooperative local groups to provide integral services , Ensures the best quality of health services , Promotes the appropriate use of medicines , It facilitates the management by processes
- Goals self-management:
- Refocuses the health system to support self-management , Promotes patient involvement in planning services , Improving support services with an emphasis on peer support, the disabled and carers , Allows home care , Allows remote support to patients and their carers from health professionals
The goal of ELLICSR is to improve the cancer experience by exploring novel ways to learn from survivors, to develop new survivorship communities and to study how cancer survivors can be engaged, empowered and active in adopting healthier behaviours that minimize the negative impact of cancer and its treatment. It is a spacious community centre with teaching and self-management areas for patients and survivors and is fully wired to support virtual programming, community connections and global collaborations.
6/06/2010
Progress
CANADA
Ontario
Toronto
200 Elizabeth Street, Clinical Services Building, BCS021
M5G 2C4
- Centre for Global eHealth Innovation Organization
- Princess Margaret Hospital Organization
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