HDW Monthly Bulletin 🌱 March 2025
What we're watching: the current measles situation, challenges facing dental care providers, who's receiving home care, and how our kids are doing (at least, according to them and their parents).
New numbers 📊
Statistics Canada
- Mar-27/25: Health region geographic boundaries as of Sept-2024 (brief)
- Mar-26/25: Oral health providers survey (brief; data-all)
- Mar-13/25: Provisional deaths in Canada up to Q4 2024 (dashboard)
- Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth (CHSCY) 2023 (brief)
- Mar-26/25: Functional difficulties (data-1; data-2)
- Mar-26/25: Health indicators (data-parents; data-youth)
- Mar-10/25: Healthcare access (data)
- Mar-5/25: Health of Canadians 2024, an annual summary of key population health data (brief; annual report)
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
- Mar-21/25: Measles and rubella monitoring up to Mar-8, updated every Friday (dashboard)
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
- Mar-20/25: Induced abortions in 2023 (brief)
- Mar-13/25: Profile of clients in home care 2023-2024 (data)
In the news 🗞️
While U.S. institutions are reeling amidst sweeping federal actions with implications for racial health equity, Canadian healthcare leaders are renewing calls for strengthened collection and use of race-based data. But when and how should we be using information about race and ethnicity in research?
Some free resources to ponder this question:
- Guidance on reporting race and ethnicity in research articles from the Canadian Medical Association Journal (2023)
- Guidance on the Use of Standards for Race-Based and Indigenous Identity Data Collection and Health Reporting in Canada from CIHI (2022)
- Updated Guidance on the Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals from JAMA, following extensive (but unfortunately pay-walled) commentary on the original editorial (2021)
- An extensive review of the perils and opportunities of race-based data in clinical practice from KFF, the U.S. healthcare news non-profit (2021)
Learn & connect 🍎
You've heard of clinical trials, but what about pragmatic trials? Check out the free online training program offered through HDRN and Western University.