Text Equivalent - Long Description - Figure 1: Logic Model for Surveillance Functional Component
Action Areas: The Surveillance Component has three Action Areas:
- Analysis, Interpretation and use of Existing Data Sources
- Expansion of Data Sources
- Coordination, Planning and Evaluation
Activities: The specific activities within each Action Area are:
- Analysis, Interpretation and use of Existing Data Sources – For these activities, there is a focus on diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases, musculoskeletal disease and arthritis, cancer, and mental illness.
- Provide Web-based access to data, inventories of databases, metadata & resources
- Provide consultation services for analysis
- Analyze existing surveys and databases
- Build surveillance capacity in PHAC Regional Offices
- Prepare reports, fact sheets, articles and present at conferences
- Provide education and training
- Expansion of Data Sources
- Further refine National Diabetes Surveillance System (NDSS) databases
- Expand use of administrative databases using NDSS platform for National Diabetes & other Chronic Disease Surveillance Systems (NDCSS)
- Develop capacity for Aboriginal registry linkage with cancer registry and administrative databases
- Add chronic disease content to Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) & assist with developing regular regional level surveys
- Develop sentinel surveillance in clinical settings
- Renew childhood/youth cancer surveillance program
- Coordination, Planning and Evaluation
- Liaise with surveillance-related initiatives within PHAC & other federal government departments
- Liaise with NGOs, researchers, other federal departments & database managers regarding data collection, tools & dissemination for specific diseases
- Coordinate disease specific Surveillance Advisory Committees
- Coordinate Public Health Network Task Group on Surveillance of Chronic Disease and Injury
- Develop surveillance indicator framework
- Evaluate surveillance systems
The target groups for these activities includes Federal and P/T Governments, Local/Regional Public Health and Planning Bodies, NGOs, Academia, Database Managers, CIHR & Other Research Bodies.
Outputs: For each Action Area, the specific outputs associated with the above-mentioned activities are:
- Analysis, Interpretation and use of Existing Data Sources
- Internet-based geographic mapping of chronic diseases and their risk factors
- Web-based chronic disease data dissemination tool
- Inventories/library of databases, metadata and resources
- Timely responses to requests
- Reports and fact sheets published
- E-learning programs, workshops, conferences
- Expansion of Data Sources
- NDSS related reports – standards, data quality, dissemination
- NDCSS related reports – development, standards, data quality, dissemination
- Reports with expanded CCHS data
- Grants and contributions distributed for regional risk factor surveillance, sentinel surveillance, Aboriginal surveillance
- Coordination, Planning and Evaluation
- Indicator framework
- Committee meetings and reports
- Evaluation reports
The combined activities associated with the three Action Areas is expected to contribute to improved inter-organizational, inter- and intra-sectoral, multi-jurisdictional engagement.
At an immediate outcome level, these efforts will lead to improved surveillance systems with:
- More information on the tracking of chronic diseases in Canada
- Enhanced quality and compatibility of data
- Increased access to data and metadata
- Enhanced knowledge, skills and resources to do surveillance
In turn, these outcomes will have a contributing influence on the following outcomes at an intermediate level:
- Increased knowledge about trends in chronic disease, its risk factors, and outcomes
- Increased use of surveillance data to guide and evaluate decisions about chronic disease research, policies, programs & services
- Increased effectiveness and efficiency of programs, policies and services
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