Identifying population level insights

Under this category, the spotlight is on collections of individuals at multiple scales. This is the category to share new found and deep understandings of biological, social and environmental experiences that shape health and well-being that have the potential to bring about change and make a significant impact.

 

• Child Outcomes for Mothers Facing Trial (COMFT): Protocol for a multi-national data linkage study to understand caregiver arrangements for children of mothers involved in the criminal and family justice systems

  Karen Broadhurst, Bachar Alrouh, Leslie Humphreys, Laura Elizabeth Cowley, Laura North, Kathryn Tranter, Claire Hargreaves, Amy Mizen, Lucy J Griffiths

  Published online: Jun 4, 2026

• Childbirth-Related Hospital Burden by Socioeconomic Status in a Universal Health Care Setting

  Sarah Meghan Mah, Claudia Sanmartin, Sam Harper, Nancy A Ross

  Published online: Jul 5, 2018

• The Children’s Data Network

  Harnessing the Scientific Potential of Linked, Administrative Data to Inform Children’s Programs and Policies

  Regan Foust, Jonathan Hoonhout, Andrea Eastman, John Prindle, Rebecca Rebbe, Huy Nghiem, Himal Suthar, Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin, Michael Mitchell, William Dawson, Lindsey Palmer, Siddharth Raj, Eunhye Ahn, Ivy Hammond, Claire McNellan, Julia Reddy, Wan-Ting Chen, Kamilah Mayfield, Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Jacquelyn McCroskey

  Published online: Mar 23, 2022

• Claims-based measures of continuity of care have non-linear associations with health: data linkage study

  Bich Tran, Michael Falster, Louisa Jorm

  Published online: Dec 4, 2018

• Cleaning and validating longitudinal maternal and child postcode histories from a national healthcare registry for environmental health research in London, UK

  Pia Hardelid [Joint First Author], Glory Atilola [Joint First Author], Amal Rammah, Bianca De Stavola, Tom Clemens, Steve Cunningham , Chris Dibben, Samantha Hajna, Alison Macfarlane, Ai Milojevic, Jonathon Taylor, Linda Wijlaars

  Published online: Feb 5, 2026

• Co-resident grandparent and maternal employment. A Northern Ireland cross-sectional administrative data analysis

  Ana Corina Miller, Dermot O'Reilly, David Wright

  Published online: Oct 9, 2024

• Cohort Profile Update: Reflecting back and looking ahead: Updating the Comparative Outcomes and Service Utilization Trends (COAST) Study to include 28 years of linked data from people with and without HIV in British Columbia, Canada

  Michael O. Budu, Katherine W. Kooij, Kate Heath, Taylor McLinden, Claudette Cardinal, Scott D. Emerson, Paul Sereda, Jason Trigg, Jenny Li, Erin Ding, Mark W. Hull, Kate Salters, Viviane D. Lima, Rolando Barrios, Julio S. G. Montaner, Robert S. Hogg, for the COAST Study Team

  Published online: Mar 6, 2025

• Cohort profile: A population-based record linkage platform to address critical epidemiological evidence gaps in respiratory syncytial virus and other respiratory infections

  Minda Sarna, Belaynew Taye, Huong Le, Fiona Giannini, Kathryn Glass, Christopher C Blyth, Peter Richmond, Rebecca Glauert, Avram Levy, Hannah C Moore

  Published online: Apr 11, 2024

• Cohort profile: Creation of an E-cohort to Address the Evaluation of Population Secondary Prevention Quality and Outcomes Post-Stroke (ESP-QOPS) in Wales

  Daniel King, Elizabeth A. Ellins, Hywel T. Evans, Nicholas R. Evans, Mike Gravenor, Julian Halcox, Jonathan Hewitt, Manju Krishnan, Barry McDonnell, Keeron Stone, Daniel E. Harris, Ashley Akbari

  Published online: Apr 21, 2026

• Cohort profile: The SAIL long-term conditions e-cohort (SLTC cohort) investigating area-level changes in healthcare resource use in Wales

  Timothy Osborne, Rowena Bailey, Amy Mizen, Richard Fry, Ronan A Lyons

  Published online: Jun 17, 2025

• Cohort profile: working age adults accessing secondary mental health services in South London (UK) and benefits – a data linkage of electronic mental health records and benefits data.

  Ava Phillips, Ray Leal , Amelia Jewell , Ira Madan, Johnny Downs, Matthew Broadbent, Matthew Hotopf, Sarah Dorrington, Nicola T. Fear, Sharon A.M. Stevelink

  Published online: May 23, 2024

• Color Coded Health Data: Factors related to willingness to share health information in South Asian community members in Canada

  Iffat Naeem, Meriem Aroua, Nashit Chowdhury, Vineet Saini, Hude Quan, Tanvir C Turin

  Published online: Jun 20, 2023

• Considerations for selecting and implementing comorbidity indices when using secondary data sources: a guide for health researchers

  Boglarka Soos, Tyler Williamson, Kerry McBrien, Samuel Wiebe, Marcello Tonelli, Danielle A. Southern, Cathy A. Eastwood, Bing Li, Hude Quan, Paul Ronksley

  Published online: Sep 2, 2025

• Correlates of child mental health and substance use related emergency department visits in Ontario: A linked population survey and administrative health data study

  Jinette Comeau, Li Wang, Laura Duncan, Jordan Edwards, Katholiki Georgiades, Kelly K. Anderson, Piotr Wilk, Tammy Lau

  Published online: Aug 14, 2023

• Counting Households Containing Same-Sex Couples: An Inclusive Approach

  Peter Brandon, Oleg Ivashchenko

  Published online: Oct 12, 2022

• Creating individual level air pollution exposures in an anonymised data safe haven: a platform for evaluating impact on educational attainment

  Amy Mizen, Jane Lyons, Ruth Doherty, Damon Berridge, Paul Wilkinson, Ai Milojevic, David Carruthers, Ashley Akbari, Iain Lake, Gwyneth Davies, Anna Mavrogianni, Mohammad Al Sallakh, Lorraine Dearden, Rhodri Johnson, Sarah Elizabeth Rodgers

  Published online: Aug 21, 2018

• Data Centre Profile: The Provincial Health Data Centre of the Western Cape Province, South Africa

  Eduan Coetzee, Krish Vallabhjee, Ian de Vega, Melvin Moodley, Lesley Shand, Adam Loff, Naadir Fredericks, Robin Dyers, Renier van Rooyen, Andrew Boulle, Kasturi Buddiga, Cara Pienaar, Florence Phelanyane, Nesbert Zinyakatira, Themba Mutemaringa, Mariette Smith, Nicki Tiffin, Alexa Heekes

  Published online: Nov 20, 2019

• Data linkage can reduce the burden and increase the opportunities in the implementation of Value-Based Health Care policy: a study in patients with ulcerative colitis (PROUD-UC Study)

  John David Walshe, Ashley Akbari, Dr Barney Hawthorne, Hamish Laing

  Published online: Nov 24, 2022

• Data Resource Profile: PharmaNet, the Database for Prescription Drug Dispensing in British Columbia, Canada

  Andrew Li, Yinshan Zhao, Scott D. Emerson, Kimberlyn McGrail, Sandra Peterson, Helen Tremlett

  Published online: Jun 18, 2026

• Data resource profile: a nationally representative linked pregnancy cohort in Canada integrating clinical, social, and environmental data

  Sabrina Chiodo, Sonia M. Grandi, Jessica Gronsbell, Laura C. Rosella

  Published online: Mar 9, 2026

• Data Resource Profile: COVid VAXines Effects on the Aged (COVVAXAGE)

  Kaleen N. Hayes, Daniel A. Harris, Andrew R. Zullo, Djeneba Audrey Djibo, Renae L. Smith-Ray, Michael S. Taitel, Tanya G. Singh, Cheryl McMahill-Walraven, Preeti Chachlani, Katherine J. Wen, Ellen P. McCarthy, Stefan Gravenstein, Sean McCurdy, Kristina E. Baird, Daniel Moran, Derek Fenson, Yalin Deng, Vincent Mor

  Published online: Oct 18, 2023

• Data Resource Profile: ECHILD only-children and siblings (ECHILD-oCSib): a national cohort of linked health, education and social care data on mothers and children in England

  Qi Feng, Georgina Ireland, Ruth Gilbert, Katie Harron

  Published online: Jun 6, 2024

• Data Resource Profile: Education and Health Data in New Zealand’s Integrated Data Infrastructure

  Thomas Schober, Nicholas Bowden, Stephanie D'Souza, Sheree Gibb, Barry Milne, Lisa Meehan

  Published online: Apr 23, 2026

• Data resource profile: Exploring freely accessible data describing wider determinants of health in England

  Steve Childs, Chris Farmer, Abraham George, Elizabeth Ford, Melanie Rees-Roberts

  Published online: Oct 2, 2024

• Data Resource Profile: Public Health Scotland (PHS) Homecare Medicines Dataset: A National Resource for Linked Prescribing Data for Specialist Medicines Prescribed in Hospital Outpatient setting and Supplied Via Homecare Services

  Amanj Kurdi, Laura Stobo, Morven Millar, Will Clayton , Andrew Merrick , Stuart McTaggart, Tanja Mueller, Marion Bennie

  Published online: Feb 19, 2026