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Health Services
Data
definitions, limitations & uses • Data Sources
While the use of health care services is
not one of the most important indicators of the
health of communities, it is nonetheless important
for health care planning. The use of health care
services can provide information on emerging
health trends that may impact future allocation of
health care dollars. This section will discuss
visits to dental and family practitioners, the use
of medication, and use of emergency services.
Almost 80% of residents 12 and older, living in
the combined regions of Leeds, Grenville and
Lanark, Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington
and Hastings and Prince Edward (LGL/KFLA/HPE) had
made at least one visit to a family physician in
the year prior to the 1996 Ontario Health Survey.
Information from the survey shows that women were
more likely than men to make a visit. That is, 86%
of all women 12 and older, compared to 73% of all
men within the same age group, saw a family
physician at least once in the past year (see figure 1).
Dental health is an important aspect of our
physical health. In 1996, 67% of men 12 and older,
and 65% of women of the same age group, living in
LGL/KFLA/HPE had visited a dentist in the past
year (see figure 2).
With age, the proportion of the population
visiting a dentist decreased. For example, in 1996
only 50% of individuals 65 and older in this
region had been to a dentist in the past year.
This was similar to Ontario. In contrast, during
that same year, 80% of individuals 12 to 19 years
of age in this had been to a dentist in the past
year (see figure 3).
In this report, individuals who are reported to
use medication are individuals that have said that
they had used some medication in the past month,
when surveyed in 1996 Ontario Health Survey.
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In the combined regions of Leeds,
Grenville and Lanark, Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox
and Addington and Hastings and Prince Edward (LGL/KFLA/HPE),
76% of males 12 and older, and 89% of females 12
and older had been using some medication. Locally,
irregardless of age, a greater proportion of women
reported using medications compared to men (see figure 4). This
trend has also been found throughout the province.
Emergency health services are services that
provide immediate health care needs to immediate
health care problems.
In 1996, in the combined regions of Leeds,
Grenville and Lanark, Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox
and Addington and Hastings and Prince Edward (LGL/KFLA/HPE),
and in Ontario, women were more likely than men to
use these services. In this region, 23% of men 12
and older, and 30% of women 12 and older reported
using emergency health services at least once in
the previous year in the 1996 Ontario Health
Survey. While service use differed with sex, it
did not change with age of residents in the region
(see figure 1).
Data
Definitions, Uses and Limitations
Visit to General Practitioner
Prevalence of Dental visits
Use of emergency services
Prevalence of medication use
Data
Sources
Ontario Health Survey, 1996
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