Welcome to the Observatory
The Circumpolar Health Observatory (CircHOB) is an international collaborative health information system, involved in systematic, standardized, and consistent data collection and analysis. In addition to aggregating online and print resources, CircHOB will be population-based, and produce data for all northern regions in all circumpolar countries.
CircHOB’s purpose is to monitor trends and patterns in health status, health determinants, and health care, provides qualitative and quantitative evidence for planning and evaluation of health programs and services. It is on-going and sustainable with periodic updates.
Salient points include:
- The Observatory will be located at the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research Data Centre, Yellowknife, NT and will open in 2011. This data centre will include a physical library, a Statistics Canada Research Data Centre, and a searchable and interactive databank of both print and electronic resources drawn from across the circumpolar world.
- The Circumpolar Health Supplement entitled, “Circumpolar Health Indicators: Sources, Data and Maps” outlines the scope of CircHOB's quantitative data focus. It contains a comprehensive set of statistical tables on all the circumpolar countries and their northern regions and subpopulations, in a standardized and consistent manner, summarizing their health status, health determinants and health care. It is currently available for download.
- Further print/electronic publications consisting of tables, charts, maps and interpretive text will be produced periodically by the International Journal of Circumpolar Health
As the Observatory develops, please browse our growing catalogue of online and print resources as well as the visualization tools for the 2000-2004 datasets.
