http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Re-Community-Indicators-in-Newfoundland-tp1707p1710.html
Ah. I see. The press release I was going from was very Nfld. specific. Looks like I'm going to have to read the report with all the reccomendations, then. Thanks.
It would be fun to have a visualization of 'Where senate reccomendations go to die', like Sunlight did for congressional bills, here:
--- On Wed, 7/15/09, Tracey P. Lauriault <
> From: Tracey P. Lauriault <
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> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Community Indicators in Newfoundland
> To: "civicaccess discuss" <
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> Received: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 4:51 PM
> 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<
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> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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> >
> > That seems like progress... I wonder what the
> implementation rate on senate reccomendations is?
> >
> > Jennifer
> >
http://visiblegovernment.ca> >
> > --- On Tue, 7/7/09, Tracey P. Lauriault <
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> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Tracey P. Lauriault <
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> >> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Community
> Indicators in Newfoundland
> >> To: "civicaccess discuss" <
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> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:11 PM,
> >> Jennifer Bell <
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> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Nifty! This is the first time I've seen
> something
> >> like this in Canada.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
http://www.communityaccounts.ca/communityaccounts/onlinedata/getdata.asp> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Apologies if this came up already.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Jennifer Bell
> >>
> >>
http://visiblegovernment.ca> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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