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CHL 5405S: Community health assessment

CHL 5405S: Community health assessment. Class presentation 22/01/2004 by L. Ruus, Data Library Service <laine.ruus@utoronto.ca>. Outline. Finding health statistics and data Highlights: selected sources of Aggregate statistics Microdata (e.g. survey data)

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CHL 5405S: Community health assessment

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  1. CHL 5405S: Community health assessment Class presentation 22/01/2004 by L. Ruus, Data Library Service <laine.ruus@utoronto.ca>

  2. Outline • Finding health statistics and data • Highlights: selected sources of • Aggregate statistics • Microdata (e.g. survey data) • What the Data Library Service can do for you

  3. Finding health statistics and data • UT/DLS home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/ • Major research data collections in the UT/DLS http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/major/major.htm

  4. Sources of aggregate statistics: national and international statistics • CANSIM (STC) • Health indicators database (STC) http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/free.htm • CIHI (Canadian Institute for Health Information) • OECD health statistics

  5. Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI): • <http://www.cihi.ca/> • launched 1994 • Hospital Medical Records Institute + MIS Group + Health Canada + Statistics Canada • data collection: • health human resources • health care expenditures • health services

  6. Health indicators database: • http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/free.htm • A free product from Statistics Canada since 2000 • National, provincial, and health region statistics • Statistics from Statistics Canada and CIHI

  7. OECD health data, 2003 ed. • Available at: http://prod.library.utoronto.ca:8090/datalib/datart/datalib/oecd/health/2003 • Guide:/oecdhealth03guide.pdf • Original executable:OECDHealthData2003.exe

  8. Aggregate statistics: subnational • Process-produced data: vital statistics, etc • Annual demographic statistics • CANSIM • Census of population • Sample surveys [with large Ns]: NPHS, CCHS

  9. CANSIM • Over 18 million time-series of socio-economic statistics • On Statistics Canada’s main web server: <http://cansim2.statcan.ca/> • On Statistics Canada’s E-stat web server: <http://estat.statcan.ca/> • On the CHASS web server: <http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/cansim2/index.jsp>

  10. Annual demographic statistics • Annual estimates of population • Components of population growth • Short term population projections • Geography: Canada, provinces, CMAs, and census divisions (counties)

  11. Census of population: • Availability of aggregate statistics from the Canadian population census http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/major/censusag.htm • CHASS Census analyzer: http://dc1.chass.utoronto.ca/census/ct.html • STC community profiles http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/profiles/index.cfm

  12. CHASS census analyzer

  13. STC community profiles

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