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Health committee In terms of gathering surveillance information, it would depend on the quality of the information we could gather and on the level at which we could identify the different communities. I would agree with my co-witnesses that the important part is to move the bar, to move forwar
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat
Health committee I would like to address the importance of evidence-based policy development. Being able to measure the magnitude of the problem, being able to look at it over time to see whether it is increasing or decreasing, being able to look at risk factors and who is most affected in the po
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat
Health committee The Public Health Agency is collecting data, but not specifically on PTSD. We have data on mental illness, but, as I said in my opening remarks, PTSD represents various challenges. We usually work with our partners in order to establish good case definitions, which are not perfe
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat
Health committee It's about improving the tracking, the case definitions, and the level of specificity in what the provinces already track.
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat
Health committee There is still a lot of work to be done.
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat
Health committee Yes.
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat
Health committee It would permit us to develop work to look at PTSD. It's not to say that we couldn't focus our attention on that now also.
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat
Health committee It could, but I think the devil is in the details. The information they have in the province is sometimes not specific enough. It probably would require provinces to work more or change their definition.
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat
Health committee It could, yes.
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat
Health committee Yes.
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat
Health committee Personally, I'm not, but I would turn that question to Dr. Sareen, who does research. What we do is more a monitoring of conditions across Canada in order to establish the burden and describe the condition in terms of people, so more women than men. Sometimes we have access to ri
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat
Health committee Mr. Chair and honourable members, thank you for the invitation to address this committee regarding its study of Bill C-211, an act respecting a federal framework on post-traumatic stress disorder. Let me begin by reiterating a statement by the World Health Organization in 2004:
May 16th, 2017Committee meeting
Anne-Marie Ugnat