HEALTH REGIONS - 2000
Boundaries, Geographic Information and Population Estimates
SUMMARY:
Health regions are defined by provincial governments as the areas of responsibility for regional health boards (i.e., legislated) or as regions of interest to health care authorities.
In 1998, Statistics Canada, together with the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Advisory Council on Health Info-Structure (Health Canada), consulted stakeholders across Canada to identify current and future needs for health information. These consultations identified a need for comprehensive and comparable sub-provincial data. In response to this need, health regions were investigated as an alternative geographic unit for disseminating health information.
This report provides an overview of health regions in Canada, along with sources and methodologies for developing and understanding the health region data linkage and digital boundary files, geographic attributes, and population estimates.The same health region boundaries contained in Health Regions - 2000 have been used in the sample design for the Canadian Community Health Survey. Future boundary changes may cause adjustments to the survey collection and dissemination process, or sample revisions for future survey cycles.
FREQUENCY: Occasional
TYPE OF SURVEY:
DATA COLLECTION:
SAMPLE SIZE:
GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE: Canada,
Provinces, Health Regions KEYWORDS:
Census of population, Census subdivisions, Enumeration areas, Geographic
areas, Health status indicators,
Land area, Maps, Population density, Population estimates, Postal codes, Provincial
differences, Record
linkage, Urban population.
DOCUMENTATION:
The documentation to some surveys is available in a variety of formats. Files associated with this survey in a downloadable format will be listed below. In the case of PDF files, you will require Adobe Acrobat to access files. CLICK HERE to download Adobe Acrobat.
Canadian Community Health Survey - Cycle 1 - 2001 [Web Retrieval]
User Guide [PDF]
Summary [PDF]
UPDATES:
NOTES: All files for this product are listed below in the Tables section.
Summary derived from Users Guide.
2002/05 cp
Digital Boundary Files [ArcInfo] [MapInfo]
Census Subdivisions [XLS]
Health Regions by Area [XLS]
Population of Health Regions by Age group, Sex [XLS]
EA-CSD CORRESPONDENCE FILES BY GEOGRAPHIC AREA National XLS British Columbia XLS Alberta XLS Saskatchewan XLS Manitoba XLS Ontario XLS Quebec XLS New Brunswick XLS Nova Scotia XLS Prince Edward Island XLS Newfoundland XLS Northern Territories XLS French Language Files XLS
IMAGES OF HEALTH REGIONS BY GEOGRAPHIC UNIT Canada JPEG Canada Numbered Regions JPEG British Columbia JPEG Alberta JPEG Saskatchewan JPEG Manitoba JPEG Ontario JPEG Ontario - Northern JPEG Ontario - Southern JPEG Quebec JPEG New Brunswick JPEG Nova Scotia JPEG Prince Edward Island JPEG Newfoundland JPEG Northern Territories JPEG
