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CCA Appoints Expert Panel on Health Data Sharing in Canada
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: June 30, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Datasets , Media , Population Research , Evidence-based Policy , Partners
“Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.” - Peter Senge The sharing of health data has positively impacted the Canadian health care system and saved countless lives. Recently, responding to a request from the Public Health Agency of...
Busier obstetricians means fewer patient complications
Mara Mallory
Posted: February 3, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Population Research , Health , Evidence-based Policy
Women undergoing C-sections with lower volume providers or specialists other than obstetricians are at much higher risk of complications Caesarean sections (C-sections) account for approximately 4.9% of all inpatient surgeries in New Brunswick and rates have been rising throughout Canada. NB-IRDT researchers looked at all hospital admissions for C-sections in New Brunswick between April 2004 and March...
Immigrants as permanent residents
Mara Mallory
Posted: November 7, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Evidence-based Policy , Economics , Population Research , Labour Markets
It’s easy to track how many immigrants are accepted into a province as permanent residents through immigration programs. It is much harder to keep track of what happens after they arrive. Many New Brunswickers are counting on immigration to help alleviate the economic and social challenges we face as a result of NB’s demographic challenges. For New Brunswick to fully benefit from immigration, we need to dig deeper to understand the immigrant experience once they arrive in our...
Projected New Brunswick population in 2036
Mara Mallory
Posted: November 5, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Evidence-based Policy , Population Research
In 2017, we published one of the first in-depth examinations of how New Brunswick’s population is expected to change over the coming decades, both in terms of geographic distribution and numbers. Principal researcher Dr. Paul Peters, now at Carleton University, was a researcher with the New Brunswick Institute for Data, Research and Training at the University of New Brunswick when he and the NB-IRDT team developed a scenario-based forecasting model to try to predict what New...