MSPH Seminar 8-Oct-08: From health research to social research: privacy, methods, approaches

12.30pm – 1.30pm (light lunch 12.00 – 12.30pm), Wed 8th Oct 2008
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie St, Carlton

Professor Noralou Roos, Founding Director & Professor Leslie Roos, Co-founder Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Canada

Information-rich environments in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom have been built using record linkage techniques with population-based health insurance systems and longitudinal administrative data. This presentation will discuss issues in extending population-based administrative data from health to additional topics more generally connected with well being. Information-rich environments such as that in Manitoba depend on registries and record linkage to increase the range of variables available for analysis. Using new databases on education and income assistance to provide information on the whole Manitoba population has involved linking files while preserving privacy, scaling educational achievement, assessing exposure to a given neighbourhood, and measuring family circumstances. Issues of organization of research, gaps in the data, and productivity will also be discussed.

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