Population Data BC

Effects of Public School Choice on Private Schools: Evidence from Open Enrollment Reform

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Patients being examined in a busy hospital room

Data access has been granted for a project which aims to estimate the effects of open enrolment on the outcomes of independent schools.

How effective was The BC Emergency Medicine Network in treating patients with chest pain?

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Patients being examined in a busy hospital room

Data access has been approved for a study to assess the effectiveness of disseminating chest pain clinical guidelines to emergency departments in British Columbia (BC), in an effort to improve diagnoses for chest pain/heart attack patients.

CaraSpace

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CaraSpace provides a safe, secure place for researchers to store and analyse their data, while ensuring that privacy-sensitive data remains protected.

It is a secure private cloud accessible only via an encrypted Virtual Private Network (VPN) through a firewall and use of a YubiKey® for two-factor authentication.

The Secure Research Environment (SRE)

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The Secure Research Environment (SRE) is a Population Data BC service for Researchers who access data through PopData. The SRE provides a central location for access to and processing of research data, secure storage and backup of data extracts and free software for data analysis.

Secure data storage

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We have been operating successfully for over 20 years and are trusted by many data providers, including federal and provincial government.

We operate one of the most secure data centres in Canada, meeting and exceeding all relevant legal, ethical, recommended best practice, and regulatory or legislative guidelines for data protection and privacy. A full suite of tried-and-tested security and privacy policies and procedures clearly define our operations.

Mapping Health Data

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Overview

The geospatial revolution has given rise to new opportunities in public health – we can now explore the health of our communities better than ever through the lens of geography. To do this we use GIS technology. As such, this 3-part webinar series will cover the basics of GIS for public health and the opportunities that lie within.