Health committee  I think if we look internationally, a number of countries in Europe are very good at the way they collect and disseminate their data and make their data useful. There's a product that has come out of the World Health Organization in Europe, which is a series of report cards on ch

Health committee  Thank you for having us.

Health committee  I'd like to add something to that, if I could. From the ideal system perspective, for it to be a truly complete system, it has to include not only support for the collection and tabling and dissemination of data but also support for the capacity to properly interpret and use tha

Health committee  Thank you, yes. As I'm sure members of the committee are aware, unfortunately, we're in a situation where a lot of the data on injury we have to work from is out of date. It is a couple of years lagging behind. I think one of the things that needs to happen in surveillance in

Health committee  The short answer is we've not formally tabled it in the House of Commons. This is the first opportunity, through a House committee, to present the report. We did send copies of the report in advance of its publication to every member of cabinet in the summer of 2009. That is the

Health committee  We have not as of yet.

Health committee  I would just add that a number of us also sit on a federal-provincial-territorial committee, which is task group of the public health network. It is the expert committee on chronic disease and injury prevention, the injury prevention and control task group. It has also made recom

Health committee  All right, first, to answer the question you had asked about whether data was collected as part of the economic burden research on aboriginal communities--first nations, Inuit, Métis, and non-status Indian communities--the answer is that unfortunately, for this project we were no

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chairperson, and thank you to the rest of the committee. My name is Philip Groff, and I thank you all for the opportunity to speak with you today and to share some information on injury and its prevention. I'm here today representing SMARTRISK, a national chari

Health committee  Yes, it seems to have worked this time.