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Author(s): Gregory Finlayson, Mark Smith, Charles Burchill, Dave Towns, William Peeler, Ruth-Ann Soodeen, Heather Prior, Shamima Huq, Wendy Guenette, Patricia Martens, Jim Dunn, Carole Taylor, Aynslie Hinds
Publication Date: 2013
The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) in conjunction with Manitoba Housing and Community Development (Manitoba Housing), Manitoba Energy, Innovation, and Mines (IEM) who maintain the database, and Manitoba Health worked collaboratively to integrate fourteen years of social housing data (1995/96–2009/10) into the Population Health Research Data Repository (Repository) maintained at MCHP. This allowed for an unprecedented opportunity to desc...
Author(s): Aynslie Hinds, Jino Distasio, Patricia J Martens, Mark Smith
Publication Date: 2013
Objective Homeless individuals with poor health frequently use healthcare services. However, studies using self-reported data may be subject to biases. We examined health status, healthcare and drug use among mentally ill homeless individuals, comparing self-report and administrative data claims to estimate the degree of agreement between the two sources.
Methods Baseline survey data from 100 participants of the Winnipeg site of the Mental Health...