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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 STATUS
HealthConditions
HumanFunction
Well-Being Deaths
DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
HealthBehaviours
Living &Working
Conditions
PersonalResources
EnvironmentalFactors
HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCEAcceptability Accessibility Appro-
priatenessCompetence
Continuity Effectiveness Efficiency Safety
COMMUNITY/HEALTH SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS
Community CharacteristicsHealthSystem
Other
Health Indicators framework
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
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