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Community GPI based on simple questions:

Genuine Progress Index for Atlantic Canada Indice de progrès véritable - Atlantique Measuring Community Wellbeing & Development JAG, Sydney, 6 June, 2003. Community GPI based on simple questions: How healthy is our community? What kind of community are we leaving our children?.

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Community GPI based on simple questions:

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  1. Genuine Progress Index for Atlantic CanadaIndice de progrès véritable - AtlantiqueMeasuring CommunityWellbeing & Development JAG, Sydney, 6 June, 2003

  2. Community GPI based on simple questions: How healthy is our community? What kind of community are we leaving our children?

  3. Uncertain Answers: More possessions, growth, but…. Stress, obesity, asthma, environmental illness Insecurity, inequality, unemployment, child poverty Decline of volunteerism Natural resource depletion, species loss Less fish, condition of forests, soils Global warming

  4. E.g.: Cape Breton in CCHS – causes for concern • High unemployment and low-income rates • Much higher incidence of chronic illness, disability, and premature death than Halifax • Highest age-standardized mortality rate in Maritimes • Highest death rate from circulatory disease, heart disease in Maritimes – 30% above nat.av.

  5. Of 21 Atlantic health districts, Cape Breton has highest rates of: • Cancer death (231.8 per 100,000) – 25% higher than the national average, lung cancer • Deaths due to bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma (9.2 per 100,000) –50%+ higher than the national average • High blood pressure– 21.7%, (24.3% women 19% men = 72% higher than the Canadian rate.

  6. Cape Breton = highest: • Arthritis and rheumatism: 31% of women, 23% of men • Activity limitation (34%) • Life expectancy: 72.8 years for men, and 79.4 for women. (Canada: 75.4 years - men and 81.2 years -women

  7. Disability-free life expectancy • Cape Bretoners have an average disability-free life expectancy of only 61.8 years, seven fewer than the national average, and the lowest of all the 139 health regions in Canada. • This means that Cape Bretoners can expect to live considerably more years with a disability than other Canadians.

  8. Potential years of life lost • highest number of potential years of life lost due to both cancer and circulatory diseases • Cape Bretoners lose 2,261.9 potential years of life per 100,000 population due to cancer – 41% higher than the national average of 1,603.7 • and they lose 1,684 potential years of life per 100,000 population due to circulatory diseases – 65% higher than the national average of 1,020.7

  9. Cape Breton = lowest mammogram screening, highest breast cancer rate

  10. Conventional measures of social progress & wellbeing send the wrong message: • Sickness, crime, pollution, resource depletion, long work hours (stress) make economy grow – which in turn means we are “better off”?? • GDP can grow as poverty, inequality increase.GDP ignores work that contributes directly to community health (volunteers, work in home) • We need better indicators of health & wellbeing: GPI values health and its determinants – equity, livelihood security, education, environment, unpaid work, etc.

  11. Community GPI Initiative came from community groups. Many community partnerships include: • Cape Breton Wellness Centre, community health boards, regional public health authorities, Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, NS Citizens for Community Development Society • CB regional police, Glace Bay Citizens Service League, Rotary Clubs, Kings and Cape Breton Community Economic Development Agencies

  12. Community-Government-University Partnerships: • Federal: Canadian Population Health Initiative, National Crime Prevention Centre, HRDC, Health Canada (PPHB Atlantic), Canadian Rural Partnership, Rural Secretariat, Statistics Canada • University College of Cape Breton, Acadia U. • Dalhousie Univ. Population Health Research Unit; St. Mary’s University Time Use Research Program

  13. Tool for community health and wellbeing - Goals: Community: vision, mobilize, learn, act, assess: • Vision - community indicator selection • Mobilize communities - common goals • “Learning about ourselves” – relationships among variables = unique database • Turn new-found knowledge into action • Track progress

  14. Process as Result • Indicator selection, creating survey • Results and report releases bring together stakeholders and disparate groups • Scan existing programs, identify gaps • New ideas: e.g. restorative justice, family-friendly work arrangements

  15. The Means: • 3,600 surveys - random, 15+, confidential • CI 95% +/- 3%; 2 cross-tabulations • Detailed: 2 hrs; Glace Bay: 82% response • Survey includes health, care-giving, time use, voluntary work, security, income employment, environmental issues • Data entry & cleaning, access guidelines

  16. Balance community-based research with methodological rigour • Statistics Canada oversight, advice, review • Frame questions to compare results with provincial & national averages • Improve methods, indicators, survey tools, data sources - never a final product • Model for other communities (e.g. Sydney, Whitney Pier) - template for adaptation

  17. What’s in the Glace Bay and Kings County GPI Surveys?1) Demographics & Employment • Age, sex, household, marital, education, income • Employment, unemployment, out of work • Job characteristics - types of jobs (p-t, f-t, etc), benefits, work from home, occupation • Work schedule, hours, shifts, job security, underemployment, job sharing - work reduction

  18. 2) Health and Community • Core values, caregiving, volunteer work, community service • Stress, mental health, social supports, children’s health • Weight, smoking, physical activity, screening (Pap, mammogram, blood pressure) • Pain, disability, disease, medications, health care use

  19. 3) Peace and Security • Victimization and costs of crime • Neighbourhood safety, fear, self-protection • Opinions about police, courts, prisons • Identify community problems - drinking? bullying? domestic violence? drugs? Etc.

  20. 4) Time Use Diary • Work: Household work, paid work, voluntary work, caregiving, education • How we spend free time - TV, reading, socializing, spiritual practice, sport, exercise • Travel, personal activities, child care • Window on quality of life

  21. 5) Environment • Energy use • Transportation patterns • Water quality • Recycling and waste • Food consumption - food diary and nutrition

  22. Community Action • Community access to results - special software packages, news stories, etc. • Meet to discuss results and identify policy priorities / actions • Community prioritizes indicators for annual benchmarks of progress • Community training - adaptations

  23. Emphasis on practical action - E.g: • Teenage smoking; overweight; exercise - e.g. promote school-based programs • Screening rates - mammography, pap smears -- notify health officials of needs • Identify counselling needs - employment, domestic violence, mental health • Education - nutrition, recycling, energy use • Glace Bay police inspector – vandalism focus

  24. Present Smoking Habits (Non-smokers include both those who quit smoking and those who never smoked)

  25. Current smokers by employment status

  26. Daily Cigarette Consumption and Employment Status

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