Planning without facts: Ontario's aboriginal health information challenge

Journal of Agromedicine

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 90-96

  Minore, Bruce ^a   Katt, Mae ^a   Hill, Mary Ellen ^a  

^a Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

American Native Continental Ancestry Group; Canadian Aboriginal; Data collection; Health services planning; Information management

Indexed keywords

METIS;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CANADA; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS;

CENSUSES; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ONTARIO; REGISTRIES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 68949221555     PISSN: 1059924X     EISSN: 15450813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10599240902739802     Document Type: Conference Paper

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