Part 5

1. Part 5 Accessing Data Via www.statcan.ca

2. Health Indicators

3. 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

4. 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

5. Health Indicators framework

6. Health Indicators - data sources • Statistics Canada: • 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

7. Health Regions • defined provincially • inconsistent in size • do not always conform with standard geographic units • geo-coding tools/methods developed to link data

8. 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

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