Ontario's Aboriginal Health Information Challenge
M. Katt, B. Minore, M.E. Hill, T. Gauld, and I. Pugliese

Recognizing that the majority of Aboriginal people living in Ontario have less access to quality primary health care than the province's population as a whole, this environmental scan was framed around two broad questions: (a) what is the nature of the services available to Aboriginal people across the province? And (b) what do we know about the quality of that care? The answers came from a comprehensive review of published literature and in-depth interviews with individuals responsible for administering and delivering primary care to Aboriginal clients across the province in rural, remote or urban settings. The results showed that Ontario needs a health information system that would allow Aboriginal people's health status and health services utilization to be documented completely and accurately on a routine basis.

(funded by the Ontario Health Quality Council)

[Report available on our Online Reports page.]



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