Transcript Canadian Community Health Survey

Part 5
Accessing Data Via
www.statcan.ca
Health
Indicators
What are Health Indicators?
• measures of health status, determinants of
health and the health system
• based on standard (comparable) definitions
and methods
• broadly available – disseminated
electronically across Canada at the
national, provincial and regional level
Project background
• May 1999 consensus conference
– framework and core set of indicators
• indicators developed and published
– pilot phase: development of geography, data
sources and methods
– provinces and regions involved in verification
process, refining methods
• ongoing consultations
Health Indicators framework
HEALTH STATUS
Health
Conditions
Human
Function
Well-Being
Deaths
DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Living &
Working
Conditions
Health
Behaviours
Personal
Resources
Environmental
Factors
HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
Acceptability
Accessibility
Appropriateness
Competence
Continuity
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Safety
COMMUNITY/ HEALTH SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS
Community Characteristics
Health
System
Other
Health Indicators - data sources
• Statistics Canada:
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admin. data (vital statistics and cancer)
surveys (e.g., NPHS, NLSCY, LFS, CCHS)
Census
Demography Division
• CIHI:
– health system data from the provincial health
ministries or hospitals
Health Regions
• defined provincially
• inconsistent in size
• do not always conform with standard
geographic units
– geo-coding tools/methods developed to link data
Peer groups
• need to compare regions
• peer groups defined to serve this purpose
• based on 24 variables
– basic characteristics, living and working
conditions (mostly Census data)
• working paper available
BC 1
BC 2
BC 4
BC 5
Contact Information
Larry MacNabb
• Phone: (613) 951-4269
• Email: [email protected]