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NAC Rate
acronym for Non Ambulatory Care (NAC) Rate |
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Narcotic Analgesic Medications
Medications used to control or relieve pain. For a list of narcotic analgesic medications, including the DINs and ATC codes, used in the Child Health Atlas Update (2008), please see the Links section below. |
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National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)
A national committee comprised of experts in pediatrics, infectious diseases, immunology, medical microbiology, internal medicine, and public health. NACI makes recommendations for the use of vaccines approved for use in humans in Canada, advises on the n... |
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National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)
CIHI's standardized abstracting system for ambulatory care. It collects client visit data for hospital-based ambulatory care at the point of service in the facility. For more information on the NACRS data held in the MCHP Data Repository, please see th... |
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National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) Data
The National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS) data contains summary information for NACRS data submission level 1 (e.g.: Emergency department) and level 3 (e.g.: Day Surgery and other ambulatory care visits) for Winnipeg hospital-based ambulatory ... |
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National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY)
THE NLSCY began in 1994 and is jointly conducted by Statistics Canada and Social Development Canada (SDC). These surveys included topics on health, education and activities of children; parental information such as work, income and health; and data on th... |
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National Population Health Survey (NPHS)
The NPHS was a survey administered by Statistics Canada that collected longitudinal data related to the health and socio-demographic conditions of the Canadian population. It was a biennial survey where the same respondents were re-interviewed every two y... |
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National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS) Data
MCHP's National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS) data contains demographic, administrative, and clinical information pertaining to physical rehabilitation clients in seven Winnipeg facilities. For more information on NRS data, see the: ... |
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Native
See Aboriginal Peoples. |
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NCs
acronym for Neighbourhood Clusters (NCs) |
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Near Graduate
A high school student who was in S4 in the 4th or 5th year, but has not completed or graduated from high school. |
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Need For Health Care
The ability or capacity to benefit from health care interventions. These benefits may be in the form of an improvement or restoration of health status, or in the form of maintenance or protection of health status. |
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Need For Hospital Care
A population-based estimate of an area's need for hospital services based on population characteristics (age, gender, socio-economic status (Socio-Economic Risk Index (SERI)), and health status (Premature Mortality Rate (PMR))), and geographic location (w... |
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Need For Medical Care
See Need For Health Care. |
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Needs Adjustment
Second stage of Needs Based Allocations takes into account differences in the indicators of need: premature mortality and SES indicators. |
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Needs Based Allocations
Method of distributing health care funding equitably among the regions of Manitoba. Uses a two-stage adjustment model: 1). age and sex adjustment; 2). need, as measured by premature mortality and SES indicators. |
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Needs Based Approach
An approach to physician resource planning to identify the supply / demand of physicians based on the needs of the population. Needs are based on characteristics of the regions and its residents, including age, gender, socio-economic status, and health s... |
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Needs Based Funding
Method of allocating resources to ensure that the needs represented by different population age structures and health profiles are equitably met by the resources provided to Regional Health Authorities. Though similar to needs-based planning, these measur... |
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Needs Based Planning
A number of measures are used to determine the requirements for health care resources in an area, including: demographics, socio-economic status and health status. In particular, special attention is given to the age and gender of a population, premature ... |
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Negative Binomial Distribution
A discrete probability distribution appropriate for analyzing count data when an event is relatively rare, but is highly variable over the entire population. The negative binomial distribution is often employed in regression analyses when the Poisson dist... |
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