Welcome to the PRIMUS research group
The Programme de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Médecine et l'Utilisation des Soins (Interdisciplinary research program on medicine and health care utilization) unites expertise in the fields of medicine, biology, epidemiology, psychology, rehabilitation, mathematics, biostatistics, geography/geomatics, health administration, economics and medical informatics. With a population-centered perspective, the PRIMUS group is interested in chronic diseases, mental disorders and aging, therefore addressing family medicine as well as many other specialities in medicine. Their common mission is the advancement of scientific knowledge through the collect and data analysis on patients and populations, the knowledge transfer to policy makers and health care providers, the improvement of healthcare services to the patients and, in the long term, the improvement of the population’s health.