Part 5

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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

Contact Information

Larry MacNabb

• Phone: (613) 951-4269

• Email: larry.macnabb@statcan.ca