We’re working with CHNET-Works! To bring you another Fireside Chat . On December 6th, at 1:00 p.m., we’ll explore creative solutions to integrating health equity into local population health status reporting.
Increasingly, population health status reports are key evidence in the creation and realignment of public and population health policies. The National Collaborating Centre is working to strengthen the integration of social determinants and health equity in population health status reporting processes. To learn more, click here .
This webinar will focus on two examples, exploring how challenges related to health equity and small area health status calculation and analysis have been overcome.
1. In Nova Scotia, life expectancy was proposed as one of the health statuses to be monitored at the small area level. As a result, new strategies were developed to combine data at various levels so that reliable estimates could be made. It is now possible to compare life expectancy differences across the province and better assess equity issues in both large and small communities.
2. In British Columbia, an online and field survey was implemented (February 2012) with questions similar to the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). One of the objectives was to collect a sample size that ensured better representation of the diversity of the community. The result has been a community survey process that was successful in collecting data from a representative sample of adults in order to inform a community wellness strategy.
Who should attend?
This webinar will be of interest to epidemiologists and statisticians, but also to program managers and public health practitioners who struggle with how to get the data they need to inform and evaluate local interventions.
Advisors on tap:
Mikiko Terashima, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Science Program
Community Health & Epidemiology, Dalhousie University
Dr. Mikiko Terashima holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. (Population Health and Epidemiology), a Master's degree in Planning, and diploma in Geographic Information Systems. Her research focuses on the geography of social inequalities in health and disease mapping. Mikiko has analyzed the relationships between community level deprivation and various health statuses in Nova Scotia, and how the health gaps between most and least deprived communities have widened recently. Her current research interests are centered on how to better incorporate evidence in social inequality in health into health systems research.
Jat Sandhu, BSc(Hons) MPH MSc PhD
Regional Director, Public Health Surveillance Unit
Office of the Chief Medical Health Officer
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
Dr Jat Sandhu, is the Regional Director of the Public Health Surveillance Unit at Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. The Unit was established in 2007 to support regional public health practice in the areas of health assessment, disease surveillance, epidemiological investigations and knowledge exchange. The Unit was recognised as a national leading practice for public health by Accreditation Canada in November 2010.
Dr Sandhu contributes to public health capacity development through his faculty appointments at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, as well as being primary placement supervisor for field epidemiologists with the Canadian Field Epidemiology Program of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
For more information, and to sign up, click here.
