This is just one of the questions a recently approved data linkage project hopes to answer. The project will link administrative data to explain the academic achievement and well-being of adolescent immigrants, refugees, and non-immigrants in Canada.

Data access has been approved for a project which will assess the influence of stroke on early and long-term survival following three types of cardiac surgery: open heart bypass surgery, heart valve surgery and combined bypass/valve surgery.

Andrea Jones, a PhD candidate in UBC’s School of Population and Public Health has received a two-year Doctoral Research Training Award from WorkSafeBC for a project looking at mental health following return to work after injury. PopData will link BC Ministry of Health, WorkSafeBC, and Pharmacare data for the study.

Data access has been approved for a project which will link administrative health data with researcher-collected survey data, in an attempt to quantify just how much systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases cost the Canadian economy.

We are delighted to announce the launch of PopData's Metadata Central, an online data documentation system for our Research and Data Steward communities.

The use of publicly-funded telehealth services, or virtual visits, in the primary care setting in British Columbia has dramatically increased over the last five years, as has the cost of providing these services. So far, however, such virtual visits have undergone little objective evaluation.

Data access has been approved for a study to measure the health care costs of cancer care in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Québec and Nova Scotia. Dr Stuart Peacock, Distinguished Scientist at the BC Cancer Agency, is leading the British Columbia arm of the project which is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

In 2010, the BC Ministry of Health set out a three-year service plan which included a focus on integrating family physician and community health care to address the increasing needs of the population due to aging, a rising burden of illness from chronic disease and an increased prevalence of frailty.