Mapping A Community's Health Needs

21 May 2005 - 7:00am

A Toronto website sheds light on community 's health needs.

"While the Toronto Community Health Profiles Partnership website is primarily intended to help planners reduce health inequalities, the average person will find some interesting facts about where they live: for instance, parkland area per capita and the levels of physical inactivity in local communities. . . . Service groups will be able to look at the comparative demographic, socioeconomic and health data for 140 neighbourhoods and 60 larger health planning areas in the city of Toronto.

Source: The Toronto Star, May 18, 2005
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