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Online Injury Atlas for Ontario
In Canada, injuries are the greatest single contributor to potential years of life lost before age 65. As the largest province by population, Ontario represents a significant proportion of the national injury burden, with thousands of lives lost, and hundreds of thousands of injuries sustained annually. The reported economic cost each year is in the billions of dollars.
To increase public awareness about the threat of injury, the Injury Prevention Research Office of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, is collaborating with GeoConnections to develop a web-based injury atlas for the province.
The online atlas will enable users to visualize key injury-prevention, social, economic, and demographic data, and to examine the spatial relationships of injury and its determinants. Public health units using the atlas will be able to determine areas and populations at risk, enabling them to provide appropriate injury prevention programs and make informed decisions about policies and programming.
The Ontario Injury Atlas will make significant contributions to the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure by combining a number of existing Web Map Services (WMSs) with health, injury, and demographic data published as new WMSs for this project.
Primary Partner:
St. Michael's Hospital Injury Prevention Research Centre
Toronto,
Ontario;
Partners:
Byron Moldofsky, Cartography Office, Department of Geography, University of Toronto
Dr. Tony Hernandez, Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity, Ryerson University
Dr. David Hulchanski, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto
Funding From GeoConnections: $98,750.00 ( 48.5 %)
Estimated Inception Date: June, 2007
Estimated Completion Date: August, 2008
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Ontario;