Health Regions: Boundaries and Correspondence with Census Geography, December 2018
Release date: December 14, 2018Correction date: October 1, 2020
Correction Notice
Corrections have been made to this product. Please take note of the following changes:
On October 1, 2020, in the section “Health regions boundary files”, Cartographic boundary files have been replaced with the correct files.
This issue describes in detail the health region limits as of December 2018 and their correspondence with the 2016 and 2011 Census geography. Health regions are defined by the provinces and represent administrative areas or regions of interest to health authorities. This product contains correspondence files (linking health regions to census geographic codes) and boundary files. User documentation provides an overview of health regions, sources, methods, limitations and product description (file format and layout).
What’s New?
- In Ontario, effective May 1, 2018, the Elgin-St. Thomas Health Unit (3531) and Oxford County Health Unit (3552) merged to become the Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit (3575).
- To refine the precision of census correspondence to health regions, some dissemination blocks have been reassigned (6 in Ontario, 24 in Alberta and 23 in British Columbia). For detailed information, see Table 1 Detailed list of 2018 changes in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
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