About the 1997 Health Indicators Database


In 1986, the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Committee on Institutional and Medical Services Sub-committee on Health Information created a working group to identify a set of health indicators intended for senior officials at the provincial and federal levels. The group gave the responsibility for creating and distributing the database to the Health Statistics Division (HSD). A list of approximately 125 indicators were identified and analyzed leading to the creation of the 56 indicators contained in the Health Indicators database.

The Health Indicators diskette product contains the entire database of 56 indicators and the software to access the information on a personal computer. The database can be accessed on the mainframe computer by using Statistics Canada's CANSIM cross-classified database.

The Health Statistics Division is pleased to present the 1997 edition of a comprehensive set of health indicators containing the latest information available from a wide variety of national surveys and administrative databases, making this package a versatile and powerful tool for the analysis of Canadian health issues.

The indicators are grouped into four categories that reflect one objective of modern governments and health professionals; that is, to provide for a long and active life for the largest possible number of persons:

As this indicator program evolves over time, it should prove useful in establishing health goals for the population and offer objective measures of their success. Health Statistics Division would like to take this opportunity to thank the provincial/territorial health administrations, Health Canada and other government agencies for their cooperation and support in this endeavour.

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What's new with the product What's new with the Data

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The original set of indicators was outlined by the members of two working groups reporting to the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Committee on Institutional and Medical Services through the former Sub-Committee on Health Information:
Working Group on Key Indicators         Working Group on Health Status 
                                        Information

L. de G. Fournier, Chairman, HSD        Nick Haazen, Chairman, B.C.
Jerry Vila, MOH, Ontario                Lily Eastridge, MOH, Ontario
Michel Blondeau, MSSS, Québec           Vivien Lai, HMC, Alberta 
Michel Trahan, HWC                      Owen Adams, HSD
Claude Strohmenger, HWC                 Claude Strohmenger, HWC
Owen Adams, HSD                         Michel Trahan, HWC

The overall responsibility for planning and coordinating the content of Health Indicators rested with the Product Development Section of Health Statistics Division. The concept and design of the original data dissemination formats and database was accomplished by John Menic. The revisions and updates were coordinated by Deirdre Gillieson. Numerous staff members throughout Statistics Canada contributed towards the preparation of the tables and graphs:

Health Canada

Communicable 
Diseases:      Mary Jane Garnett

Statistics Canada

Labour:        Horst Stiebert        Labour Force Survey:     Marc Levesque

Education:     Jim Donnelly          Household Surveys:       Edith Lamoureux
 
HSD:           Deirdre Gillieson     Dissemination Division:  Patrick Conway
               GarryMacDonald
               Francine Ladouceur
               Michel Gunville
               Michael Gagnon

To all these persons, and many others, we at Health Statistics Division say thank you. Your cooperation and assistance are greatly appreciated.


For more information about the Health Indicators Database

Contact your local Data Liberation Initiative Contact. For the University of Western Ontario, this is Vincent Gray, the Data Resources Librarian.
HTML file prepared at the Social Science Computing Laboratory, University of Western Ontario, by S. Vincent Gray, Data Resources Librarian, from the README.TXT file supplied with the Health Indicators Database, dated 1997-08-28.

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