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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 |
If you would like to be
notified of any changes or updates to the Health Status Report 2000 document
please email
info@healthunit.org and specify in the
subject 'Health Status 2000 Notification'.
Thank you.
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This report
is meant to be a work in progress, which will change over the next few years.
Therefore, it is important to receive constructive feedback.
Please send us your comments. |
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