The CSSS-IUGS is actively involved in health promotion and prevention. As such, it participates in many research initiatives, in particular on lifestyle habits, suicide and vaccinations.
Here are a few examples of research initiatives in which the CSSS-IUGS participated in 2011-2012:
- Social workers and interventions in microsocial and macrosocial crises
- Telehealth as a means to support practice: impact on nurses working in outlying regions
- Pediculotis capitis in Quebec primary schools: prevalence of infestation, impact of outbreaks, and detection of pyrethrin resistance among lice
- Study of factors which influence the practice of nursing in hormonal contraception in Quebec
