Essential People

Many individuals contributed efforts and expertise which made it possible for us to produce this Child Health Atlas. We gratefully acknowledge the following and apologize in advance for anyone we may have overlooked:

• Those from the Department of Education, Citizenship and Youth, who played an essential role throughout the development of this report, providing invaluable advice on the development of the education variables and concepts, and constructive feedback on preliminary results and drafts, including John Van Walleghem, Richard Perrault, Carol Crerar, Jean Britton, Ken Clark, Shirley McLellan, and Irene Huggins.

• Those from Healthy Child Manitoba, who not only provided invaluable feedback throughout the development of this Atlas, but also made the Healthy Baby program data available to us including Rob Santos, Leanne Boyd, Jan Sanderson, Teresa Mayer, Cynthia Carr, Mallory Neuman and Lynn Suche.

• Those from The Section of Clinical Genetics and Metabolism, who were instrumental in providing us with data from the Maternal Serum Screening Programme and provided insightful feedback on preliminary results including Bernie Chodirker and Ab Chudley.

• Numerous other individuals who provided support and feedback at various times throughout this project including Connie Allsopp, Lynda Baxter, Karen Botting, Carol-Anne Browning, Larry Budzinski, Tom Carson, Heather Demetrioff, Doug Edmond, Brent Guinn, Jan Forster, Gudrun Fritz, Lorraine Henley, Heather Hunter, Barb Isaak, Ben Levin, Brett Lough, Stephen Power, Strini Reddy, Jean-Yves Rochon, Harvey Stevens, and Edie Wilde.

• MCHP personnel who helped extensively in preparing data for this Atlas including Charles Burchill, Pat Nicol and Randy Walld, and in the reviewing, editing and producing graphs or maps for this Atlas including Shannon Lussier, Eileen Bell, Jo-Anne Baribeau, Sam Kovnats, Paul Willetts, Janine Harasymchuk, and Dan Chateau.

• The many individuals who worked so hard to ensure that a safe and secure protocol was in place for the transfer of the education data and family services data into the Manitoba Population Health Research Data Repository, including Ben Levin, Pat Rowantree, Debra Woodgate, Gudrun Fritz, Harvey Stevens, Jan Forster, Grant Doak, John VanWalleghem, Louis Barre and Paulette Collins.

Essential Funding

This research has been funded by the Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI), a program of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

A portion of the research support for this project has been provided by a gift received from the RBC Financial Group.

The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the Canadian Institute for Health Information or the RBC Financial Group.

Essential Data

We are indebted to the following agencies for provision of data:

• Health Information Services, Manitoba Health
• The Office of Vital Statistics of the Agency of Consumer and Corporate Affairs
• Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth (Systems and Technology Services; Assessment and Evaluation Branch)
• The Western Canada Institute of Reading Recovery
• Healthy Child Manitoba
• Manitoba Family Services and Housing
• The Section of Clinical Genetics and Metabolism, Health Sciences Centre, Manitoba
• City of Winnipeg (Community Services Department, Winnipeg Police Service)
• Winnipeg Property and Lands Branch
• General Council of Winnipeg Community Centres
• Youville Centre

The results and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and
no official endorsement by any of these agencies is intended or
should be inferred.