Re: Community Indicators in Newfoundland

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault on
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Re-Community-Indicators-in-Newfoundland-tp1707p1709.html

Jennifer;

The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and
Technology mentioned in their Senate Subcommittee on Population
Health, A Healthy, Productive Canada: A Determinant of Health Approach
mentioned that the Community Accounts is a good model.  This is but
one of many recommendations.  Their recommendation however is for
population health and the models for these have not been agreed upon
and differ from the Community Accounts system which is not Pop Health
but general socio economic.  Provinces can receive recommendations,
and if money's come attached to them, then sometimes something happens
but not normally in a uniform standard way.

I have been involved in some population health research mostly on the
indicator side, and with the absence of a model, money and coherent
affordable statistics across the country from the Provinces, the
chances of this recommendation moving forward any time soon are slim
indeed.

Another recommendation was to fund Statistics Canada properly so that
it can do its work properly, also to revisit CIHI which is a quasi NGO
that currently sells health data at a very high cost as a work around
statcan.

Cheers
t

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jennifer Bell<[hidden email]> wrote:

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> More on this:  it looks like a senate committee has reccomended the Community Accounts model -- where community indicator data that is normally too costly to access is collected & assembled by gov. on behalf of community groups -- be adopted in every province.
>
> http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2009/fin/0629n02.htm
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> That seems like progress...  I wonder what the implementation rate on senate reccomendations is?
>
> Jennifer
> http://visiblegovernment.ca
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> --- On Tue, 7/7/09, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> From: Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]>
>> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Community Indicators in Newfoundland
>> To: "civicaccess discuss" <[hidden email]>
>> Received: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 4:49 PM
>> It did but it is nice to see it again
>> and send more if you come across them.
>>
>> This is a wonderful collaboration between Alton Hollet at
>> Newfoundland Stats and Doug May at Memorial University.
>> They are the early pioneers in rattling and shaking data out
>> of Statcan for locally based indicators projects.
>>
>>
>> An equivalent is being developed for Nova Scotia Community
>> Counts - http://www.gov.ns.ca/finance/communitycounts/
>> spearheaded by the same crew and a new addition Malcom
>> Shookner formerly from the Ontario Social Development
>> Council which are simular to social planning councils and
>> who is now with the Population Health Unit Dalhousie
>> University Nova Scotia who spearheaded the first quality of
>> life reports for a by community groups (http://qli.spno.ca/) not
>> fancy but the best locally based indicators development
>> project I have seen yet for Canada.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> t
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>>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:11 PM,
>> Jennifer Bell <[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
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>> Nifty!  This is the first time I've seen something
>> like this in Canada.
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>> http://www.communityaccounts.ca/communityaccounts/onlinedata/getdata.asp
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>> Apologies if this came up already.
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>> Jennifer Bell
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>> http://visiblegovernment.ca
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