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Title
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Meeting National and Regional Health Data Needs: The Experience of Government Surveys in the United States and Canada
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Date / Time / Room
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Sponsor
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Type
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08/13/2002
10:30 AM -
12:20 PM
Room: H-Sutton Parlor South
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Section on Government Statistics*, Section on Health Policy Statistics*, Section on Survey Research Methods*, Social Statistics Section*
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Invited
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Organizer:
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Jane F. Gentleman, National Center for Health Statistics
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Chair:
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Jane F. Gentleman, National Center for Health Statistics
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Discussant:
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Floor Discussion
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12:15 PM
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Description
Many modern industrial societies are undergoing a process of "regionalization" of their systems for health care delivery and financing. Functions previously performed by national governments are being shifted to regional governments (e.g, states and provinces). While the pace and form of change differ according to national history and national polity, cross-nationally the changes uniformly demand more and better health data at the regional level, and a change in the role of health data at the national level. A consequence has been change in the organization, resources, structure, content, and methods of health data systems at the national and regional levels, and in the relationships between national and regional health data systems. This session examines and evaluates this experience from the viewpoint of government health surveys at the national and regional levels in two countires, Canada and the United States.
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