Hey CP,
I use to post a lot from the Alberta Health perspective, but now I have a new thing I want to promote a little. My most recent project I've been happy to be working on is the new health information public website that was launched yesterday,
www.ourhealthsystem.ca
It's one of the first products we ever done that's geared towards the public. It helps shows how your health care system is performing based on 15 indicators in your province, region, or at the hospital level. It's pretty infographic heavy and written in layman's terms.
Hope people can use it to generate discussion about their health care. For the system, transparency is a good thing and it encourages change at all levels.
Early findings (From an Ottawa Citizen article)
Quote:
- Thirty per cent of deaths in Canada among those under 75 are from preventable or treatable causes.
- Residents of the Richmond Health Services Delivery Area in British Columbia live, on average, 85.7 years — the longest in Canada. Their life expectancy is 4.6 years more than the national average. Residents of Nunavut live just 71.6 years on average, the lowest in Canada.
- Nearly three out of every 10 dollars spent on health in Canada come from private, not public, sources. In the United Kingdom, the comparable figure is 17 per cent. In the U.S., it’s 52 per cent.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/...850/story.html
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