Emma Buajitti, MPH student, presented her research on adult mortality trends in Ontario Local Health Integration Networks at the 2017 APHEO Conference.
Emma Buajitti, a second year Masters of Public Health student and member of the Population Health Analytics Lab, presented her research on adult mortality trends in Ontario Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) at the 2017 Association of Public Health Epidemiologists in Ontario conference.
Using vital statistics data linked at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Buajitti investigated geographic mortality trends in Ontario between 1992 and 2014 at the Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) level.
Findings revealed large geographic disparities in mortality rates at the LHIN level and a widening of disparities over time, indicating growing inequities between LHINs, especially in premature mortality.
This project is part of the OPTIMISE research program, an initiative led by Dr. Laura Rosella of the Population Health Analytics Laboratory at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. OPTIMISE aims to develop measures of health system functioning and inform health system planning in Ontario.