PPHE’s research mission is to understand the impacts from lack of access to veterinary care on communities, families, and animal care teams.
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Communities
- Evaluation of the AlignCare System
- Community Needs Assessments
- Impacts from Lack of Access to Veterinary Care
- Veterinary Social Work
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Bonded Families
- Family Bondedness Scale
- National Study of Pet Owners
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Animal Care Teams
- Compassion Fatigue
- Conflict Management
- Education
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Our Current Research Projects Include
- Veterinary care needs of AlignCare families
- Cost analysis of AlignCare’s veterinary care
- Attitudes about pet ownership
- Family bondedness
- Development of community assessment tool to include non-human community members.
- Landscape Analysis of Greater Seattle area
- Community assessment of veterinary care needs and current gaps in service
- Assessment of California animal shelters’ capacity for meeting community veterinary needs
- Racial disparities in animal welfare