Describing the linkage between administrative social assistance and health care databases in Ontario, Canada

• Published in: International journal of population data science Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 1689
• Main Authors: de Oliveira, Claire, Gatov, Evgenia, Rosella, Laura, Chen, Simon, Strauss, Rachel, Azimaee, Mahmoud, Paterno, Elizabeth, Guttmann, Astrid
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wales Swansea University 01.01.2022
• Subjects: administrative health care data; administrative social assistance data; data linkage; Ontario; administrative health care data; data linkage; Ontario; administrative social assistance data

The linkage of records across administrative databases has become a powerful tool to increase information available to undertake research and analytics in a privacy protective manner. The objective of this paper was to describe the data integration strategy used to link the Ontario Ministry of Child...