Sharing Health Care Initiative
The Sharing Health Care Initiative (SHCI) is designed to improve the health related quality of life for people with chronic diseases, to encourage people to use the health care system more effectively and to enhance collaboration between individuals and their families, carers and health care professionals in the management of chronic disease.
Background - self-management programs and chronic disease statistics
SHCI Research Grants Program
The Sharing Health Care Initiative will expand the range and reach of quality chronic disease interventions to support self-management over the next four years and to continue to build the evidence-base on the efficacy of chronic disease interventions to support self-management available to people with chronic diseases, and to their carers and families.
The initiative aims to:
- increase the understanding an individual with a chronic disease has of their condition and their ability to manage it
- improve the health related quality of life for people with chronic diseases
- encourage people to use the health care system more effectively
- enhance collaboration between individuals, their families, carers and health care professionals in the management of chronic disease.
