Health Reports, February 2015

Released: 2015-02-18

The February 2015 online issue of Health Reports, released today, contains two articles.

The first article, "Stillbirth and infant mortality in Aboriginal communities in Quebec," examines stillbirth and infant mortality rates among Aboriginal people in Quebec, notably, First Nations people living on reserves, and compares these rates with those of the province's non-Aboriginal population. Data on live births and stillbirths in Quebec from 1989 to 2008 were extracted from Statistics Canada's Infant Birth-Death Linked File. Postal codes were used to identify births and stillbirths on First Nations reserves, in the Cree and Naskapi communities (not on reserves), and in Inuit communities.

For more information on this article, contact Eric Delichy (eric.delichy@hc-sc.gc.ca; 514-283-9583), Communications and Public Affairs Directorate, Health Canada, Quebec Region.

The second article, "Developing a non-categorical measure of child health using administrative data" describes the application of a non-categorical survey-based tool, the Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener, to administrative data. Five screener items were applied to administrative data from Population Data British Columbia. Hospital admissions and demographic and community characteristics of a cohort of children aged 6 to 10 in 2006 were examined to validate the use of these items.

For more information on this article, contact Dafna Kohen (dafna.kohen@statcan.gc.ca; 613-853-6760), Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada.

The February 2015 online issue of Health Reports, Vol. 26, no. 2 (Catalogue number82-003-X), is now available from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications.

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