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Mapping the Relationships between Neighborhoods, Poverty and Population Health
This project will develop plans to create atlases that map the relationships between community infrastructure, poverty, and population health on behalf of the Community Social Data Strategy (CSDS) network. Led by the Canadian Council on Social Development, this network represents more than 50 Canadian municipalities, as well as local social planning networks, health and family service agencies, school boards, United Way branches, and police services.
Many Canadian researchers and planners are developing neighbourhood health, income, and poverty profiles. However, much of their knowledge goes unused or underused. This poverty atlas project will ensure that community level poverty and health indicator data is easily accessible to web-based geomatics mapping applications while insuring that individuals' privacy is respected.
By mapping location-based or "geospatial" data from distributed sources, the atlases will be used by CSDS network members to identify disparities in income, health, and poverty concentration-keys to developing effective social policies. The atlases may also be used to monitor, compare, and evaluate strategic interventions.
To be published on the web, the atlases' data sets will comply with Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) standards such as Web Map Service. The project will increase the supply of community-scale social data and strive to make this data publicly accessible. These achievements would be important first steps in building a social data inventory and archive portal.
Primary Partner:
Canadian Council on Social Development
Ottawa,
Ontario;
Partners:
Urban Public Health Network (UPHN)
Agence de la santé et des services sociaux (Agence)
Community Social Data Strategy (CSDS)
Funding From GeoConnections: $39,975.00 ( 39.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: October, 2008
Estimated Completion Date: February, 2009
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Alberta; Ontario; Quebec; Saskatchewan;