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Welcome to the Leeds,
Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit's Health Status Report. The primary
purpose of this report is to inform the public, the health unit's staff, health
providers and other interested agencies about the health of residents living in our
region.
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Highlights
These highlights provide an overview of the
Health Status Report including a summary of each section. |
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Environments
In
the Environments section, you will find descriptions of key factors
related to health in four domains; the population, the physical
environment, the social environment, and the economic environment. |
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Health
Status Measures
In the
Health Status Measures section, you will find information on the following
topics, chronic disease prevention, child health, injury prevention,
sexual health, reproductive health, health services, communicable disease
and the leading causes of death and hospitalization. |
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The
Population Health Approach
This
section provides the reader with an overview of the population health
approach defined by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR)
as... identifying how the social and physical environments in which we
live and work determine our health, and to measure their impact and trace
their complex interactions. This is the framework used to construct this
report.
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Data
Sources and Limitations
It is important to know the strengths and limitations of the sources of
data used to develop this report because these factors influenced the
methods, analysis and interpretation of data presented within. In this
section a description of each data source is presented stating its
strengths and limitations. |
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How
to Contact Us |
Go
to the 2004 Health Status Report update
This update supplements this 2000 Health
Status Report by providing updated information for many aspects of the health
of our region.
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you navigate through this document you will see text that is underlined.
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