What can the PHDA Program do for you?
Specialized online training and resources to sharpen your career edge
Do you work in the health or social science field and want to improve your data analysis skills?
What can the PHDA Program do for you?
Specialized online training and resources to sharpen your career edge
Do you work in the health or social science field and want to improve your data analysis skills?
PopData Researcher Survey: Key findings and action items
Population Data BC recently conducted a survey to better understand user’s thoughts and experiences with the data, accompanying metadata, and method of data provision.
Here we share key findings and our commitments to address researcher feedback and suggestions. The outcomes of this survey will be used in the development of next year’s annual plan and will feed into the strategic priorities for fiscal year 2022-2023.
Regression Discontinuity Design
This webinar is part of the Advanced Methods Webinar Series
Social policy and clinical care are filled with thresholds—people receive or don’t receive interventions or treatments based on factors such as income, test results, year of birth, and others. These thresholds are a potential source of quasi-randomization for strong observational studies.
Closing the loop: From system-based data to evidence influenced policy and practice
This webinar is part of the Power of Population Data Science Series
The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) has a long and successful history of leveraging the whole-population administrative data to generate evidence to answer real-world policy questions.
What are the long-term developmental impacts of prenatal antidepressant exposure?
Data access has been approved for a project to improve our understanding of the long-term development consequences of antidepressant use in pregnancy.
Introduction to Power BI for Health Data Visualization
This FREE webinar takes place from: 12:00noon to 1:00pm PST
Overview
The use of dashboards to access the latest healthcare data is something most of us have become familiar with since the start of COVID-19. But do you know how these dashboards are developed and their value to informing timely decision-making, strategy development, and team collaboration in a Population Health setting?
Record Linkage Methodology Under Fellegi-Sunter Paradigm, with Extensions
This webinar is part of the Advanced Methods Webinar Series
In 1969, Ivan Fellegi and Alan Sunter formalized a strategy for conducting probabilistic record linkage that had been developed previously. Included in this formalization was the demonstration that the scoring method used with this is optimal under certain assumptions.
Longitudinal Analysis – Studying the health impacts of loneliness and social isolation
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our society in innumerable ways to the extent that no aspect of normal societal life has been spared the rigour of upheaval. This wide-spread change has impacted many individuals, especially those possessing considerable life challenges during pre-pandemic times.
Using administrative data to support Ontario's COVID-19 response
This webinar is part of the Advanced Methods Webinar Series
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, real-time data and analytics have been important to both understanding the virus’ impact on populations and health systems and informing the public health response. The unprecedented need for timely, relevant analytics presented challenges to many health systems.
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