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• Achieving Excellence in Continuing Care - Seniors Report - September, 2005
• Programs for Seniors July 2002/June 2003 - July 2002
• Healthy Aging: New Directions for Care Part One: Overview – November 1999

Ambulatory Care

• Alberta Health and Wellness Ambulatory Care Re-abstraction Study Executive Report - June 2006
• Ambulatory Care in Alberta- Ambulatory Care Classification System Data - August 2004
• Ambulatory Care Classification System (ACCS) Manual 2006 - April 2006
• Ambulatory Care Classification System (ACCS) Manual 2005 - April 2005
• Ambulatory Care Classification System (ACCS) Manual 2004 - April 2004

Annual Reports

• Alberta's commitment to public health care: understanding your public health care insurance plan - December 2003
• Alberta Ministry of Health and Wellness Annual Report 2005/2006 - September 2006
• Alberta Ministry of Health and Wellness Annual Report 2004/2005 - September 2005
  • Alberta Ministry of Health and Wellness - Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan Statistical Supplement 2004/2005 - May 2006
• Alberta Ministry of Health and Wellness Annual Report 2003/2004 - September 2004
• Alberta Ministry of Health and Wellness - Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan Statistical Supplement 2003/2004
• Alberta Ministry of Health and Wellness Annual Report 2002/2003 - September 2003
  • Alberta Ministry of Health and Wellness - Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan Statistical Supplement 2002/2003
• Health Costing in Alberta:  2006 Annual Report
• Health Costing in Alberta: 2005 Annual Report
• Health Costing in Alberta: 2004 Annual Report
• Health Costing in Alberta: 2003 Annual Report
• 2005 Province Wide Services Activities and Outcomes Annual Report- November 2006
• 2004 Province Wide Services Annual Report on Activities and Outcomes - September 2005
• 2003 Province Wide Services Annual Report on Activities and Outcomes - April 2004
• 2002 Province Wide Services Annual Report on Activities and Outcomes - June 2003

Birth Control

• Birth Control It's Your Choice - November 2003
• Birth Control Pill - January 2006
• Birth Control Injection - January 2006
• Birth Control Patch - January 2006
• Condoms - January 2006
• Emergency Contraceptive Pill "Morning After" Pill - January 2006
• IUD - Intrauterine Contraceptive Device - January 2006
• Tubal Ligation - Female Sterilization - January 1999
• Vasectomy - Male Sterilization - January 1999
• Vaginal Contraceptive Ring - January 2006
• Vaginal Spermicides - January 2006
  • Other Related Information
    • Am I Ready for Sex? - January 1999
    • Painful Intercourse - April 2001
    • Your First Pelvic Exam - January 2006

Business Plans

• Ministry of Health and Wellness Business Plan 2006-2009 - March 22, 2006
• Ministry of Health and Wellness Business Plan 2005-2008 - April 13, 2005
• Ministry of Health and Wellness Business Plan 2004-2007 - March 24, 2004
• Ministry of Health and Wellness Business Plan 2003-2006 - April 8, 2003
• Budget archive - Alberta Finance

Children and Youth

• Positive Futures - Optimizing Mental Health for Alberta's Children and Youth - September 2006
  • Framework
  • Highlights
• Alberta Child Health Surveillance Report 2005
  •  Survey of Alberta Child Health Surveillance Report
• Birth Control It's Your Choice - November 2003
• Growing Up Okay - February 2000
• STD: Taking Care of Yourself and Others - August 2000
• What You Need To Know About Sexually Transmitted Diseases – Health Canada
• Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating
• Tips for Growing Up - AADAC
• Immunizations 
• Am I Ready For Sex? - January 1999
• Your First Pelvic Exam - January 2006
• A Family Talks About AIDS – Questions Children Might Ask - July 1999
• What to Say When They Ask: Talking About Sexuality With Your Child - June 1999

Chronic Disease and Injury

• Report to Albertans on Allocation of Federal and Provincial Funding for Enhanced Health Services for Patients with Hepatitis C virus -July, 2006
• Proceedings from the Chronic Pain Initiatives Meeting 09/17/03 - April, 2004
• Alberta Diabetes Strategy and Prevention - May, 2003
• Chronic Pain in Alberta: A portrait from the 1996 National Population Health Survey and the 2001 Canadian Community Health Survey - May, 2003
• Health Trends in Alberta – 2000
• Report on the Alberta-Wide Diabetes Forum: Putting Evidence into Practice - Fall 2000

Health Statistics

• ICD-9 to ICD-10 Coding with Reference to Causes of Death Grouping in Alberta. Working Documentation (version 1.1). Health Surveillance System Series #2 - Sept, 2006
• Report on the Health of Albertans- July 18, 2006
• Alberta Child Health Surveillance Report 2005 
• Surname Methodology in Defining Ethnic Populations: Chinese Canadians - December 2005

• Population Projections for Alberta and its Health Regions 2004-2033 - June 2005

• Geographic Methodology Series
  • Calculating Demographic and Epidemiological Quantities in Alberta by Geo-Political Areas - February 2005
  • Using the Alberta Health and Wellness (AHW) lookup file to aggregate data to different geographic boundaries - February 2005
  • A Rate Mapping Template for Alberta Regional Health Authorities - February 2005
  • Calculating Distances in Alberta - February 2005
  • Calculating Small Area Analysis: Definition of Sub-regional Geographic Units in Alberta - February 2005 (14 KB file)
• Alberta's 2004 Report on Comparable Health Indicators
  • Ministers message
  • Report of the Auditor General on the Results of Applying Specified Auditing Procedures to the Province of Alberta’s 2004 Report on Comparable Health Indicators
  • Improving Access to health services
    • Technical notes
  • Improving health care quality
    • Technical notes
  • Keeping Albertans healthy
    • Technical notes
  • Primary health care
    • Technical notes
• Inpatient Data Quality Re-abstraction Project Executive Report - July 2004
• Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance Report #6 - June 2004
• Alberta Blood-borne Pathogens Surveillance Report - 2003
• Healthy Alberta Baseline Survey - October, 2002
  • Executive Summary of Survey
• Alberta's Report on Comparable Health Indicators - September, 2002
• Information to Support Health Authority Business Plan and Annual Report Requirements (Alberta Health and Wellness) December 2002
• Data Disclosure Guidelines - Alberta health Research October 2005
• Alberta Congenital Anomalies Surveillance Report #5 - December 2001
• Information to Support Health Authority Business Plan and Annual Report Requirements - Ongoing
• Health Trends in Alberta – 2000
• Information and Data Standards – Health Information Standards Definition and Approval Process - November 1999

Developmental Disabilities

• Building Better Bridges – Final Report on Programs and Services in Support of Persons with developmental Disabilities - March 2000
  • Questionnaire - March 2000

Disease/Illness (alphabetical by Disease)

• Chickenpox - April 2002
• Common Food-borne Illnesses
• Diphtheria
  • Vaccines for children - March 2002
  • Tetanus and Diphtheria booster - March 2002
• Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS) - May 2005
• Hantavirus - September 2002
• Report to Albertans on Allocation of Federal and Provincial Funding for Enhanced Health Services for Patients with Hepatitis C virus -July, 2006 
• Hepatitis
  • Some Important Facts About Hepatitis B - November 1999
  • Canadian Hepatitis C Information Centre - Health Canada
  • Hepatitis C and Injection drug use  - Health Canada
  • Hepatitis C and Injection drug use - Focus on Youth - Health Canada
• HIV/AIDS
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections - Surveillance Report - Alberta 1998- 2002 - July 2004 
  • HIV/AIDS Could it happen to me? make choices, don't take chances - April 2004
  • Pregnant: Information on Routine Tests for Infections - February 2004
  • Alberta Aboriginal HIV Strategy 2001-2004 - Spring 2001
  • A Family Talks About AIDS – Information For Parents - August 1999
  • A Family Talks About AIDS Questions Children Might Ask - July 1999
  • HIV/AIDS in Alberta – Epidemiological Report to December 1997
  • Basic facts about HIV & AIDS - AID52
  • Basic facts about HIV and safer injection drug use - AID73
  • Women and choices - HIV - AID13
• Lyme Disease
• Measles, mumps, rubella - March 2004 
• Meningitis
  • Alberta's Meningococcal Immunization Campaign: An Overview & Assessment April-September 2001 - Spring 2004
  • Meningitis - September 2002
• Notifiable Diseases in Alberta: 2004 Annual Report - October 2005
• Pertussis
  • Vaccines for children - March 2002
  • Tetanus and Diphtheria booster - March 2002
• Pneumococcal - September 2002
• Polio
  • Vaccines for children - March 2002
  • Tetanus and Diphtheria booster - March 2002
• Report on the Alberta-Wide Diabetes Forum: Putting Evidence into Practice - Fall 2000
• STD/STI (Sexually Transmitted Diseases or Infections)
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Surveillance Report Alberta - 1998 to 2002
    • Sexually Transmitted Infections Statistical Report 2004 - August 2005
  • HIV, Hepatitis C and STD Issues in Alberta: The 2002 Survey of Adults - Fall 2003
  • STD: Taking Care of Yourself and Others - August 2000
  • STD Canadian Guidelines - Health Canada
  • Sexual Health and Sexually transmitted infections - Health Canada
  • What you need to know about Sexually Transmitted Infections - Health Canada
• Tetanus
  • Vaccines for children - March 2002
  • Tetanus and Diphtheria booster - March 2002
• Tuberculosis
  • Tuberculosis - September 
  • Division of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control – Health Canada
  • For health professionals:
    
    Alberta Tuberculosis Control Manual - January 2006
    • cover
    • Introduction
    • Screening Program
    • Case Management
    • Contact Investigation
    • Tuberculosis Prevention
    • Appendices
• West Nile virus
  • Estimating the Infection Rate of West Nile Virus in Alberta - September 2005

Environment and Health

• Wabamun and Area Community Exposure and Health Effects Assessment Program, Final Report , August 2006

• Wabamun and Area Community Exposure and Health Effects Assessment Program, Summary Report , August 2006
• Health Effects Associated with Short-term Exposure to Low Levels of Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) – A Technical Review - April 2006
• Environmental Public Health Field Manual for Private, Public and Communal Drinking Water Systems in Alberta: Second Edition - April 2004
• Swan Hills Treatment Center - Long-term Follow-up Health Assessment Program 1997-2002 -  June 2004
• The Fort Saskatchewan and Area Community Exposure and Health Effects Assessment Program - July 2003
• Health Effects Associated with Short-Term Exposure to Low Levels of Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) - July 2002 
• The Grande Prairie and Area Community Exposure and Health Effects Assessment Program - March 2002
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