Health Reports, January 2013

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The January 2013 online issue of Health Reports, released today, contains two articles.

The first article, "Comparability of self-reported medication use and pharmacy claims data," compares two sources of information about prescription drug use by people aged 65 or older in Ontario — the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and the drug claims database of the Ontario Drug Benefit Program. The article also examines the comparability of data about the use of these medications based on different questions in the 2001 and 2005 CCHS.

For more information on this article, contact Sara Allin (416-549-5413; sara.allin@utoronto.ca), Canadian Institute for Health Information.

The second article, "Measures of language outcomes using the Aboriginal Children's Survey," describes how data collected from parents/guardians for a nationally representative sample of Aboriginal children as part of the 2006 Aboriginal Children's Survey could be used as language indicators. Data from the Aboriginal Children's Survey were used to examine measures of language for Aboriginal children who were 2 to 5 years of age.

For more information on this article, contact Leanne Findlay (613-951-4648; leanne.findlay@statcan.gc.ca), Health Analysis Division.

The January 2013 online issue of Health Reports, Vol. 24, no. 1 (Catalogue number82-003-X, free), is now available from the Key resource module of our website under Publications.

For more information, contact us (toll-free 1-800-263-1136; infostats@statcan.gc.ca).

For information about Health Reports, contact Janice Felman (613-951-6446; janice.felman@statcan.gc.ca), Health Analysis Division.