Fifth Canadian Rural Health Research Society Conference and the
Fourth International Rural Nursing Congress:
RURAL HEALTH: Celebrating Diversity & Strength

"Doing Rural Health Research Using Secondary Data Sources"
Pre-conference Workshop
October 21, 2004



Welcome and Introductions
Susan Silverton (Vice-President, Academic, Laurentian University)
Raymond W. Pong (Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research)



Overview of the Landscape of Doing Rural Health Research with Secondary Data Sources

Denis Heng (Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research)

Marie Desmeules (Health Canada)

Specific Example: Description of the CCHS
Ingrid Ledrou (Statistics Canada)

Concurrent Sessions

Bootstrapping and Low Numbers
François Brisebois (Statistics Canada)

Data Linking: Combining Multiple Secondary Data Sources
Patricia Martens & Charles Burchill (Manitoba Centre for Health Policy)

Painting a Picture of Child Health Using Primary and Secondary Data
Susan Snelling & Jane Hohenadel (Sudbury Public Health Research, Education & Development)
Vic Sahai (Northern Health Information Partnership)

Closing Plenary

Health Data, Health Information, Health Intelligence
Robert Spasoff (University of Ottawa)

We thank the speakers for making their notes from these presentations available for inclusion on this website.