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  • A study on rural communities in the BC Interior

    UBC Okanagan Reichwald Health Sciences Centre, RHS 129 1088 Discovery Avenue, Kelowna, BC

    Engaging stakeholders in co-creating sustainable communities: Principal Investigator: Eric Li, PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management, UBC Okanagan Abstract: This presentation will showcase key factors that influence stakeholders’ priority and decisions on rural health promotion and community development. Reference models and mechanisms employed by policy makers, health practitioners and community leaders to facilitate health promotion […]

  • Healthful Aging

    UBC Okanagan Reichwald Health Sciences Centre, RHS 129 1088 Discovery Avenue, Kelowna, BC

    An Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) approach to ‘healthful aging’ and care in rural communities Principal Investigators: Denise Cloutier, PhD, Associate Professor, Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Victoria Karen Kobayashi, PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Victoria Abstract: Working in partnership with Interior Health, this research project will use an […]

  • Exploring the entrepreneurial activities of citizen led coalitions

    UBC Okanagan Reichwald Health Sciences Centre, RHS 129 1088 Discovery Avenue, Kelowna, BC

    Principal Investigators: Kathy Rush, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Development, UBC Okanagan Mike Chiasson, PhD, Professor, Faculty of Management, UBC Okanagan Abstract: Rural older adults have become increasingly active in forming groups, or coalitions, within their communities to address their unmet health service needs due to scarce resources and […]