What's new
Recently accepted for publication
Sanmartin CA and the Steering Committee of the Western Canada Waiting List
Project. Toward standard definitions for waiting times. Healthcare Management
Forum 2003 in press.
Sanmartin C, Ross NA, Tremblay S, Wolfson M, Dunn JR, Lynch J. Labour market
income inequality and mortality in North American metropolitan areas. J Epidemiol
Comm Health 2003; 57(10) in press.
Flanagan W, Le Petit C, Berthelot J-M, White KJ, Coombs BA, Jones-McLean E.
Potential impact of population-based colorectal cancer screening in Canada.
Chronic Dis Can 2003 in press.
Announcements
Over the past few months, HAMG has welcomed several new analysts:
Philippe Finès is doing postdoctoral work on the relationship between
income and health in the urban region of Ottawa-Gatineau compared with other
CMAs of Québec and Ontario.
Saeeda Khan, a master’s student in epidemiology at McGill University,
is examining the influence of neighbourhoods on self-reported stress among
residents of Montréal.
Kellie Murphy, a master’s student in epidemiology at the University
of Ottawa, is studying measurement scales as part of our Population Health
Impact of Disease, Injury, and Health Determinants in Canada research program.
Ritsuko Kakuma, a PhD student at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
at McGill University, joined HAMG in September through a Statistics Canada
Research Stipend. She will be investigating “Depression and Anxiety:
Patterns and Predictors of Mental Health Service Utilization over Time.”
Seminars and presentations
On June 23, 2003, Jean-Marie Berthelot gave an invited presentation "Modeling
the Potential Impact of Colorectal Cancer Screening in Canada" at "Colorectal
Cancer in Ontario, Opportunities for Quality Improvement," the first annual
Signature Event of the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario.
Four HAMG projects were presented at the First Health Statistics Data Users
Conference, Ottawa, September 7-9, 2003:
| Jean-Marie Berthelot |
Potential impact of colorectal cancer screening |
| Jean-Pierre Courteau |
Socio-economic indicators and health in urban Outaouais: a strained connection
(with Philippe Finès) |
| Nancy Ross |
Health inequalities between and within Canadian metropolitan areas |
| Russell Wilkins |
Socio-economic inequalities in health outcomes |
Our seminar series begins Thursday, October 16 with invited speaker Robert
Choinière of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec.
He will present international comparisons of mortality in Québec.
Christel Le Petit will present “Potential Impact of Population-Based
Colorectal Cancer Screening in Canada” at the International Conference
on Health Policy Research in Chicago, October 17-19, 2003.
Sarah Gorber and Julie Bernier will present a workshop on the health preference
measurement exercises at the tenth annual conference of the International Society
for Quality of Life Research (ISOQoL) in Prague, November 12-15, 2003 and at
the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Symposium, January 20,
2004. Julie will also present a poster, “The Measurement of Preferences
Toward Health States using the Classification and Measurement System of Functional
Health (CLAMES),” at ISOQoL.
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