Canadian Cancer Incidence Atlas Volume 1: Canadian Cancer Incidence /
Répartition géographique de l'incidence du cancer au Canada
Volume 1: Incidence du cancer au Canada

By the Working Group on Geographic Surveillance, Health Canada
Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1995; 172 pp (bilingual text); ISBN 0-660-60022-6; Health Canada Catalogue no H49-6/1-1996; $29.95 (CAN)

Uses of the Canadian Cancer Incidence Atlas

• Designed for individuals interested in geographic variations of cancer incidence in Canada, such as epidemiologists, educators, health planners, health researchers, clinicians and administrators

• Useful for hypothesis generation and development of regional and national health priorities (health promotion and risk reduction)

• 26 maps of incident cancers for 1986 to 1990 (23 sex-and site-specific maps; 3 site-specific maps, both sexes combined)

• Maps demonstrate incidence rate ratios (for small regions relative to the Canadian average) and statistical significance

• Summary text for each map includes descriptive epidemiology, data quality issues, known or suspected risk factors, current methods of prevention and early detection, and assessment of geographic patterns

• Extensive discussion of data quality issues

• Strong evidence of spatial aggregation was observed for the following sites:
  - Breast, cervix uteri; females only
  - All sites combined, prostate, kidney, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; males only
  - Stomach, colorectal, lung, bladder, leukemia; males and females
  - Larynx, melanoma; males and females combined

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Health Interview Surveys:
Towards International Harmonization of Methods and Instruments

Edited by A de Bruin, HSV Picavet and A Nossikov
Regional Publications, European Series, No 58
Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1996;
161pp (English only); ISBN9289013222; $39(CAN)/ $35.10(US)/ 39. (Sw fr); Order no 1310058

Monitoring health is an essential task of country systems for health information and of measuring the European Region's progress toward achieving health for all. The European policy of health for all includes internationally agreed indicators for countries to use. Health interview surveys provide the best­in some cases the only­means to collect data on some of the indicators that reflect more recent public health concerns, such as health-related behaviour and quality of life. The surveys mirror the information that only properly approached individuals may be able to provide and ensure the coverage of all subgroups of the population. Yet they enjoy a long tradition in only a few countries.

Moreover, information on indicators is sometimes not comparable. The methods and instruments of data collection have often been developed without international co-ordination, or adapted from those in use in other countries, usually with substantial changes to meet local requirements. In addition, countries lacking a tradition of health interviewing are often uncertain about the best way to conduct surveys. The WHO Regional Office for Europe and Statistics Netherlands organized a series of meetings to tackle these problems. The result was the internationally agreed methods and instruments for health interview surveys that are set out in this book. These are likely to become standards, and thus improve the comparability of information.

The book provides practical guidance on health interview surveys. It describes their role in monitoring health for all, the development and use of methods and instruments, and the prospects for harmonizing the surveys across the European Region. It is thus essential reading for all concerned with planning and making such surveys, whether in national statistics offices or in public or private interviewing agencies. It will also be useful to the public health community, including students and academics.

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