Correlates of health and healthcare performance: applying the Canadian Health Indicators Framework at the provincial-territorial level.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since, at the health system level, there is little research into the possible interrelationships among the various indicators of health, healthcare performance, non-medical determinants of health, and community and health system characteristics, we conducted this study to explore such interrelationships using the Canadian Health Indicators Framework.

Methods

We conducted univariate correlational analyses with health and healthcare performance as outcomes using recent Canadian data and the ten Canadian provinces and three territories as units of the analyses. For health, 6 indicators were included. Sixteen healthcare performance indicators, 12 non-medical determinants of health and 16 indicators of community and health system characteristics were also included as i

SUBMITTER: Arah OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1325226 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature