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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
• The Alberta Oil Sands Community Exposure and Health Effects Assessment Program: Methods Report - November 2000
• The Alberta Oil Sands Community Exposure and Health Effects Assessment Program: Technical Report - August 2000
• The Alberta Oil Sands Community Exposure and Health Effects Assessment Program Summary Report - May 2000
• Your Air Your Health – A Major New Study Tests the Quality of Air and Human Health in Fort McMurray - June 2000
• Arsenic in Groundwater from Domestic Wells in Three Areas of Northern Alberta - October 2000
• Assessing Air Quality in High Level, Report 1: A Preliminary Analysis of Physician Visits and Air Particulate Date - September 1999
• Northern River Basins Human Health Monitoring Program - March 1999
• Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxin & Polychlorinated Dibenzofuran in Cow's Milk near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta - January 1998
• Assessment of Respiratory Disorders in Relation to Solution Gas Flaring Activities in Alberta - February 1998
• Swan Hills Special Waste Treatment Centre Human Health Impact Assessment - October 1997
• Geographic and Temporal Variations of Selected Respiratory Diseases in Strathcona County and Fort Saskatchewan - September 1996

First Nations

• First Nations in Alberta: A Focus on Health Service Use - March 2004
  Request for MS Access database available by e-mailing health.surveillance@gov.ab.ca

Health Care System

• Study tour of Switzerland and Sweden  June, 2006  - August 21, 2006
• Final Report - The Australian College of Health Service Executives National Congress, Adelaide Summary - November 4, 2005
• Final Report - Mission to London, England and Paris, France February 20-26, 2005 - November 4, 2005
• Conference Board of Canada - Report on the Alberta Symposium on Health - August 2005
• Rationale of Minister's Approval of the Proposal under the Health Care Protection Act: Calgary Health Region/ Health Resource Centre - November 9, 2004
• The 2004 Public Survey About Health and the Health System in Alberta - August 2004
• Challenging Health Care System Sustainability: Understanding Health System Performance of Leading Countries - The Conference Board of Canada - June 30, 2004
• A Sustainable Health System for Alberta: Report of the M.L.A. Task Force on Health Care Funding and Revenue Generation - June 30, 2004
• Understanding Health Care Cost Drivers and Escalators - The Conference Board of Canada - March 2004
• Alberta's commitment to public health care: understanding your public health care insurance plan - December 2003
• Framework for a Healthy Alberta: Highlights - November, 2003
• Framework for a Healthy Alberta - November, 2003
• The 2003 Public Survey About Health and the Health System in Alberta - August 2003
• Report of the Alberta Health Reform Implementation Team to the Minister of Health and Wellness - May 2003
• The Burden of Proof: An Alberta Model for Assessing Publicly Funded Health Services - July 18, 2003 The Expert Advisory Panel
  • Progress Report to December 2002
• Alberta Blue Cross Review Committee Report to the Minister - April 2003
• Alberta: Health First Building a Better Public Health System Reform Highlights - March 2003
• Alberta's Health Care System:  Some Performance Indicators - December 2002
  • Technical Notes
• Alberta's Health System – Some Performance Indicators - December 2001
  • Technical Notes
• Healthy Alberta Baseline Survey - October, 2002
  • Executive Summary of Survey
• Going Further: Building on a Framework for Reform - September, 2002
• Alberta's Report on Comparable Health Indicators - September, 2002
• Factors for Assessing Proposals to Provide Uninsured In-Patient Surgical Services - March 2002
• Rationale of Minister's Approval of Proposal under the Health Care Protection Act - September 13, 2002
• Independent Review of the Process Followed by the Proposal Assessment Team for the Proposal by Health Resource Centre - Calgary for Uninsured Inpatient Surgical Services - July 31, 2002
• Legal Name of Distributing Corporation - September, 2002
• The 2002 Public Survey About Health and the Health System in Alberta - June 2002
• A Framework for Reform - Report to the Premier's Advisory Council on Health - December 2001 (Mazankowski report)
  • Alberta Health First - Building a better public health care system Alberta government response to the Premier’s Advisory Council on Health report - January 2002
  • Alberta: Health First Action Plan timeline
  • Alberta: Health First Tabloid
  • Health Reform Implementation Team site 
  • Health reform committees
• Accountability – Achieving Accountability in Alberta's Health Care System - November 2001
• Health is everyone's business – a snapshot of some of Alberta's wellness initiatives - February 2000
• A New Century: Bold Plans for Health in Alberta - February 2000
• The Report on the Health of Albertans: Looking Through a Wider Lens - November 1999
• Who is accountable in health? Roles and responsibilities in Alberta's health system - August, 1999
• Alberta's Health System – Where are we now? – Fall 1999
• Health Care '99 – A Guide to Health Care in Alberta
• Health Services Utilization Steering Committee Request for Public Input – October 7, 1999

Health Summit '99

• Government Response to the Final Report of Health Summit '99
• Summary of Delegate Recommendations – February 1999
  • Question 1: Essential Components
  • Question 2: Changes to Delivery and Management
  • Question 3: Albertans' Responsibilities to Preserve and Protect Their Own Health
  • Question 4: Appropriate and Affordable Funding
• Think About Health – Final Report and Recommendations – April 1999
• Think About Health – An Alberta Framework for Discussion - February 1999

Legislation

More Alberta Health Care Legislation

Legislation Background and Reports

• Health Care Protection Act
  • Health Care Protection Act
  • Health Care Protection Regulation
  • Deputy Minister's Rationale for Approval of Contracts - Uninsured Orthopedic Surgical Services - April 2006
  • Deputy Minister's Rationale for Approval of Contracts - Insured Oral Maxillofacial (Dental) Surgical Services - April 2006
  • Deputy Minister's Rationale for Approval of Contracts - Insured Ophthalmology Surgical Services- April 2006
  • Guide to the Health Information Protection Act - June 1997
  • A Summary of Views and Changes to the Draft Health Care Protection Regulation - September 2000
  • An examination of make or buy decision in public and private hospitals: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Competition, Profit Incentives, and Technical Efficiency in the Provision of Nuclear Medicine
  • Independent Review of Contracted (insured) Surgical Services "Supplemental Report: (Oral Surgery) - October 2000
  • Independent Review of contracted (Insured) Surgical Services - September 2000
  • Report to Albertans: Rationale of Minister's Approval of Contracts under the Health Care Protection Act - September 2002
  • Report to Albertans: Rationale of Minister's Approval of Oral Surgery Contracts Under the Health Care Protection Act - September 2000
  • Review of Assessment Criteria - August 2000
  • Review of the Surgical Services Contract Approval Process - September 2000
  • The World Health Reports
  • Assessment Criteria for Insured Surgical Services - March 2002
  • Proposal Requirements for Insured Surgical Services - March 2002
  • Assessment Factors for Uninsured Surgical Services - March 2002
  • Proposal Requirements for Uninsured Surgical Services - March 2002
• Health Information Act
  • Health Information Act
  • Health Information Regulation
  • Health Information Act Guidelines and Practices Manual 2001
  • Health Information Act Guidelines and Practices Appendices 2001
  • How the Health Information Act Will Work
  • Section 34 Consent Form - July 2006 
• Housing
  • Minimum Housing and Health Standards - July 20, 1999
    • Housing Regulation

Long Term Care

• Continuing Care Health Services Standards - May 3, 2006
• Long-Term Care Accommodation Standards - May 3, 2006
• Supportive Living Accommodation Standards - May 3, 2006
• Tracking Progress: A Progress Report on Continuing Care Reform in Alberta - September, 2002
• Alberta's Healthy Aging and Seniors Wellness Strategic Framework 2002 - 2012 - June 2002
• Strategic Directions and Future Actions: Alzheimer Disease & Other Dementias - July 2002
• Strategic Directions and Future Actions: Healthy Aging and Continuing Care in Alberta - April 2000
• Strategic Directions and Future Actions: Healthy Aging and Continuing Care in Alberta - May 2000
• Healthy Aging: New Directions for Care - Public Stakeholder Response to the Final Report of the Long Term Care Policy Advisory Committee - April 2000
• Stakeholder and Public Response to the Final Report of the Long Term Care Policy Advisory Committee - May 2000 (Executive Summary only)
• Recommendations in Healthy Aging: New Directions for Care - November 1999
• Survey on Recommendations in Healthy Aging: New Directions for Care - November 1999
• Long Term Care Review - January 1999
• Vision of Aging for Albertans in the 21st Century - February 1999
• Healthy Aging: New Directions for Care - Part One: Overview - November 1999

Mental Health

• Positive Futures - Optimizing Mental Health for Alberta's Children and Youth - September 2006
  • Framework
  • Highlights
• Formal Patients Under the Mental Health Act - February 2006
• Review Panels Under the Mental Health Act - February 2006
• Alberta Mental Health Patient Advocate office - Annual Report 2003- 2004

Nutrition

• Healthy Eating and Active Living for your 1 to 5 year old - August 2005
• Healthy Eating and Active Living for your 6 to 12 year old - August 2005
• Food Serving Sizes for Children 1 to 3 Years and 4 to 5 Years - August 2005
• Food Serving Sizes for Children 6 to 12 Years - August 2005
• Self-Reported Body Mass Index and its correlates in Alberta: A portrait from survey and administrative data sources - April 2005
• Baby's First Food: Breastfeeding - May 2005
• Infant Formula - May 2005
• Feeding Baby Solid Foods - November 2003
  • Feeding Baby Solid Foods, New Recommendations - September 2005
• Healthy Eating for Pregnancy - August 2005 
• Canada's Prenatal Nutrition Program
• Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating
• Health Canada: Nutrition
• Using Canada's Food Guide

• Alberta's Health Care System: Some Performance Indicators - December 2002
  • Technical Notes
• Alberta's Health System – Some Performance Indicators - December 2001
  • Technical Notes

Personal Directives

Alberta Seniors and Community Supports

• An overview of Personal Directives
• Personal Directives Publications
  • News Release - Province seeks public input on dependent adult and personal directive legislation - June 2005
    • Legislative Review
• Personal Directives Act

Physicians

• Master Agreement Regarding the Tri-lateral Relationship and Budget Management Process for Strategic Physician Agreements - February 2004
• Choosing Your Family Doctor

Pregnancy/Childbirth/Post-natal

• Will I grow out of it? Milestones and warning signs for speech and language development - August 2004
• Pregnant: Information on Routine Tests for Infections - February 2004
• Quick Facts for Pregnant Women with HIV - March 2005
• All About Me: Growth and Development Series
  • Birth to 2 Months - July 2005
  • 2 to 4 Months - July 2005
  • 4 to 6 Months - July 2005
  • 6 to 9 Months - July 2005
  • 9 to 12 Months - July 2005
  • 12 to 18 Months - November 2002
  • 18 Months to 3 years - November 2002
  • 3 to 5 years - November 2002
  • 5 years and beyond - November 2002
• A Parents Guide to Healthy Teeth for Children Birth to Six Years (tips cards included) - February 2002
• Healthy Eating for Pregnancy - August 2005
• Alberta Reproductive Health: Pregnancy and Births Table Update - May 2005
• Alberta Reproductive Health: Pregnancy Outcomes 2004 - January 2005
• Alberta Reproductive Health: Pregnancy Outcomes 2002 - March 2003
• Alberta Reproductive Health: Pregnancy Outcomes 2001
• Alberta Reproductive Health: Pregnancy Outcomes 1999
• Maternal Risk Factors in Relationship to Birth Outcome - July 1999
• Healthy Pregnancy and Infancy: Prenatal - 6 years - Health Canada

Regional Health Authorities

• 2006/2007 Health Authority Global Funding Table - April 2006
• 2005/2006 Regional Health Authority Global Funding Methodology and Funding Manual - April 2005
• Regional Health Authority Global Funding Manual 2004/2005 - revised September 2004
• Master Agreement Regarding the Tri-lateral Relationship and Budget Management Process for Strategic Physician Agreements - February 2004
• Regional Health Authority Global Funding Manual 2003/2004 - August 2003
• Review of Quality Care and Access to Health Services within the Chinook Regional Health Authority: Fort Macleod, Pincher Creek and Coaldale - March 2003
• Going Further: Building on a Framework for Reform - September 2002
• Lakeland Regional Health Authority - Population Formula Review - October 2002
• Regional Health Authority Global Funding Manual 2002/2003 - March 2002
• Lakeland Regional Health Authority - Revenue Assumptions Review - October 2002
• Health Authority Business Plan and Annual Report Requirements 2002/2003 to 2004/2005 - January 2002
• Governance Assessment Instrument for Health Authority Boards - November 2001
• Governance Expectations of Alberta's Health Authority Boards - November 2001
• Information to Support Health Authority Business Plan and Annual Report Requirements - December 2001
• Governance Assessment Instrument for Health Authority Boards - November 2001
• Health Authority Business Plan and Annual Report Requirements 2001-02 to 2003-04 - December 2000
• Health Needs Assessment Manual: A Guide for Regional Health Authorities - Summer 2000
• Governance Assessment Instrument for Health Authority Boards – November 1998
• Report of the MLA Committee on the Review of Health Region Boundaries - October 1997
  Accountability Documents
• Information to Support Health Authority Business Plan and Annual Report Requirements
• Guide to Health Authority Accountability Documents - November 2005
• Health Capital Planning Manual - April 2005