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The Ontario Health and Environment Information System (OHEIS)
This project will create a comprehensive, standardised geographic information system (GIS) for the rapid assessment of environmental hazards and associated health outcomes. Having a standardized GIS will improve the understanding of the links between environmental hazards/exposures and health outcomes, facilitating non-communicable disease surveillance and risk assessment.
The project will create a surveillance system considerably more sophisticated than the ones currently in use in public health settings. The Ontario Health and Environment Information System (OHEIS) will also operate at a much higher spatial resolution, allowing for more exact analysis of exposures and outcomes. In addition, the new system will be closely integrated with specialized statistical software, allowing for more sophisticated analysis. In fact, OHEIS will allow analysis and modeling at almost the individual case level. The system will play a crucial role in providing rapid and accurate information to policy-makers, scientists, and the general public at local, provincial, and national levels.
The system's full use of Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) formats will enable collaborators to access and exchange data, and disseminate results. In addition, cancer risk maps for Ontario will be developed. The maps will be distributed using a Web Feature Service (WFS) and made discoverable using the Geodata Resource Registry. In addition, CGDI technology will enable Ontario Cancer Registry data to be incorporated with other public health GIS resources, as well as with the Toronto Health Profile maps.
Primary Partner:
Cancer Care Ontario
Toronto,
Ontario;
Partners:
Cancer Care Ontario
Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Imperial College (London, England)
SENES Consultants Ltd.
Environmental Health Tracking Program, Centers for Disease Control (Atlanta, Georgia)
Health Canada
ESRI Canada Ltd.
Public health departments in the Durham, Windsor and Niagara regions
Funding From GeoConnections: $150,000.00 ( 32.8 %)
Estimated Inception Date: April, 2007
Estimated Completion Date: March, 2009
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Alberta; British Columbia; Manitoba; New Brunswick; Newfoundland and Labrador; Nova Scotia; Ontario; Prince Edward Island; Quebec; Saskatchewan;