background - public health

Public health is is the organised effort of society to protect, improve and maintain the health of individuals, as well as the society and world in which they live. Its goals are captured well by the Public Health Agency of Canada's vision for "healthy Canadians and communities in  a healthier world".

Publications

(Methods of Information in Medicine, 2011)

A Method for Managing Re-Identification Risk from Small Geographic Areas in Canada
(BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 2010)

Musings on Privacy Issues in Health Research Involving Disaggregate Geographic Data About Individuals (Int J Health Geogr, 2009)

Evaluating Predictors of Geographic Area Population Size Cut-offs (JAMIA, 2009)

The Perceived Impact of Location Privacy
(BMC Public Health, 2008)