Another busy year at HAMG

We have had another busy year! We hope that you have joined us for our seminar series or seen our work at conferences or in your reading.

In January, we presented our first results from the Population Health Impact of Disease in Canada (PHI) research program to our Advisory Committee. We have estimated health-adjusted life years (HALYs) lost to cancers through three major steps: describing and classifying health states, obtaining health state preference scores, and integrating this information with Canadian epidemiologic data. Our process will be soon documented on the Health Canada website, and we are currently preparing the first results for dissemination. Our feature article describes how we elicited health state preference scores from groups of lay Canadians and provides initial preference scores for several health states.

We continue to publish articles on a range of subjects. In June we had two major releases, the Joint Canada/US Survey of Health (see Coming soon) and the second wave of the Health Services Access Survey, which are available free of charge on the Statistics Canada website.

Jean-Marie Berthelot, Manager