Homelessness in Health Administrative Data
In this presentation, Lucie Richard and Diana Ridgeway will discuss how to use identifiers of homelessness in health administrative data. This session will provide an insightful overview of improvements in data quality, validation of case definitions and best practices for using homelessness identifiers.
About the Speakers:
Lucie Richard is a Senior Research Associate and Adjunct Scientist at MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, part of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital. Her research identifies and addresses health and health care disparities driven by social determinants of health, with a focus on homelessness. Lucie led the creation, validation and revalidation of a method to identify homelessness within Canadian health administrative databases, which is now used across Canada to describe and assess the health and health care patterns of patients experiencing homelessness.
Diana Ridgeway is a Senior Analyst with the Population Health department at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). Her work focuses on leveraging Canadian health administrative data to provide insights on inequalities in health outcomes and health systems. Diana has contributed to several publications about homelessness using health care data. She has also contributed to CIHI’s Health Inequalities Toolkit and other educational products.