Health Reports, October 2014
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Released: 2014-10-15
The October 2014 online issue of Health Reports, released today, contains two articles.
The first article, "Two approaches to linking census and hospital data," compares registry and non-registry approaches to linking 2006 Census data with hospital data from the Discharge Abstract Database for Manitoba and Ontario, two provinces for which health insurance registry data are available to Statistics Canada. The aim is to determine whether a research-quality dataset can be produced without the aid of "bridge" data from provincial health insurance registries.
For more information on this article, contact Michelle Rotermann (613-951-3166; michelle.rotermann@statcan.gc.ca), Health Analysis Division.
The second article, "Use of acute care hospital services by immigrant seniors in Ontario: A linkage study," compares the hospitalization rates and length of stay in hospital of immigrant and Canadian-born seniors in Ontario using linked 2006 Census–Discharge Abstract Database information. This linkage makes it possible to add socio-demographic and immigrant-related characteristics to hospital administrative records.
For more information on this article, contact Edward Ng (613-951-5308; edward.ng@statcan.gc.ca), Health Analysis Division.
The October 2014 online issue of Health Reports, Vol. 25, no. 10 (Catalogue number82-003-X), is now available from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications.
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