Thank you, sir.
As I mentioned earlier, by early 2015 we expect to receive the results of the Statistics Canada mental health survey and the health and lifestyle information survey, which will give us better global data to help guide the optimum distribution and requirement.
We already have some good data. The operational stress injury cumulative incidence study permits us to project out, over about a decade, what we can expect for Afghanistan-specific related operational stress injuries. But we need more than that. We're trying to now update what we did in 2002 and 2003 for the global Canadian Forces requirement. As I mentioned, Afghanistan-related operational stress injuries constitute a minority of our global mental health problems.
We have adjusted incrementally over the years. It has crept up from 447 to 452, based on our evaluation of the success of the road to mental readiness program and various other evaluations, including the operational stress injury cumulative incidence study, but these have been piecemeal evaluations and tweaks based on limited data. Now we have spent the last year, before producing this strategy, to look at all the available data. We are now just waiting for these two missing pieces, these comprehensive studies, to give us everything we need to get the best possible determination of the distribution in the future and the number, the volume of care.
We're already at double, on average, what the civilian population has per capita and we have the highest ratio per capita of mental health clinicians within NATO. But is that enough, or is it too much, or will technology permit us to change things because things have changed?