data collection

Client Management System Migrations Webinar

Monday, September 16, 2024
1:00pm-2:00pm EDT

Substance Use Disorders Webinar

Friday, September 13, 2024
10:00am-11:30am EDT

We are recruiting participants for a 90-minute virtual focus group! We are recruiting folks to share their perspectives on the collection of health equity data (i.e., race, gender, age, etc) and the visualization of this data in a data dashboard.

Eligible participants include those who are over the age of 18, reside in Canada, and identify as as person with lived or living experience of a mental health or substance use disorder. Please see the attached poster for additional study details.

The Upstream Lab at the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael's Hospital is developing the SPARK Tool to collect data on people’s characteristics (such as gender, language preference, race) and social needs (such as income, housing, food security) in health care in Canada! Social needs can impact a person's health. Understanding someone’s characteristics and social needs can help improve healthcare.

To develop and validate the SPARK tool, they need a large number of Canadians to complete the tool so that they can make it better.

Register to attend the next webinar on the provincial mental health and addictions data and digital initiative, hosted by Ontario Health. This webinar is part of a quarterly series designed to share regular updates and gather feedback on the initiative.

The objectives of the webinar are to:

Race matters when it comes to health, and other social indicators of well-being and life chances. But Canada does not collect race-based data in health or other areas. Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change (COP-COC) is hosting a public discussion to consider why we should collect race-based health data in Canada, who should collect it and what are the challenges.