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.

 

• Tasmanian Data Linkage Unit

  Supporting innovative research, planning and policy formulation in Australia through the provision of high-quality linked-data services.

  Brian Stokes, Nadine Wiggins, Tim Albion, Alison Venn

  Published online: Feb 25, 2020

• The application of population data linkage to capture sibling health outcomes among children and young adults with neurodevelopmental conditions. A scoping review

  Caitlin Gray, Helen Leonard, Matthew N. Cooper, Dheeraj Rai, Emma J. Glasson

  Published online: Mar 18, 2025

• The Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS)

  An Experience of Linking Health and Social Data in Brazil

  Mauricio Lima Barreto, Maria Yuri Ichihara, Bethania de Araujo Almeida, Marcos Ennes Barreto, Liliana Cabral, Rosemeire Fiaccone, Roberto P Carreiro, Carlos Teles, Robespierre Pita, Gerson Penna, Manoel Barral-Netto, M. Sanni Ali, George Barbosa, Spiros Denaxas, Laura Rodrigues, Liam Smeeth

  Published online: Nov 20, 2019

• The centre for health informatics: a novel approach to accelerating the field of health data science

  Danielle A Southern, Cathy A Eastwood, Erin O'Connor, Chelsea Doktorchik, Marcello Tonelli, Jon Meddings, Hude Quan, Tyler S Williamson

  Published online: Mar 21, 2024

• The Desirable Health Indicator: A New Indicator of Population Health and Healthcare Utilisation

  Harri Doel, Lucy J Griffiths , Rhodri David Johnson, Samantha Turner, Ronan A Lyons , Jane Lyons

  Published online: Feb 23, 2026

• The impact of cross-jurisdictional patient flows on ascertainment of hospitalisations and cardiac procedures for ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction in an Australian population.

  Branislav Igic, Rachel Farber, Maria Alfaro-Ramirez, Michael A Nelson , Lee K Taylor

  Published online: Feb 8, 2023

• The Impact of Indirect Transport to a Trauma Centre on Survival for Major Trauma Patients: A National Propensity-Adjusted Observational Study

  Gabrielle Davie, Bridget Dicker, Rebbecca Lilley, Nicola Campbell, Shanthi Ameratunga, Ian Civil, Charles Branas, Papaarangi Reid, Brandon de Graaf, Luisa Montoya, Bridget Kool

  Published online: Jun 9, 2026

• The impact of neurological disorders on hospital admissions for children and young people: a routine health data study

  Stuart William Jarvis, John Livingston, Anne-Marie Childs, Lorna Fraser

  Published online: May 17, 2018

• The intergenerational health, social care, and justice system contacts associated with household substance misuse in Wales

  Hywel T Evans, Ian W Farr, Grace A Bailey, Gareth I Davies, Josh Dixon, Sam Fallick, Joanne Maimaris, Columbus Ohaeri, Olabambo Oluwasuji, Ryan Phillips, Matthew Skermer, Delyth James, Josie Smith

  Published online: Jan 14, 2026

• The International Population Data Linkage Network – Banff and Beyond

  William A Ghali, Michael J Schull

  Published online: Aug 28, 2018

• The Medicines Intelligence Centre of Research Excellence: Co-creating real-world evidence to support the evidentiary needs of Australian regulators and payers.

  Nicole Pratt, Ximena Camacho, Claire Vajdic, Louisa Degenhardt, Tracey-Lea Laba, Jodie Hillen, Christopher Etherton-Beer , David Preen, Louisa Jorm, Natasha Donnolley, Alys Havard, Sallie-Ann Pearson

  Published online: Jun 13, 2022

• The Mortality After Release from Incarceration Consortium (MARIC): Protocol for a multi-national, individual participant data meta-analysis

  Zheng Chang, Ingrid A Binswanger, Frederick L Altice, Alexander D Love, Jesse T Young, David L Rosen, Sarah Larney, Jane Pirkis, David Preen, Matthew J Spittal, Holly Tibble, Anne Bukten, Tony Butler, Lesley Graham, Margaret Giles, Colin Fischbacher, Seena Fazel, Kate Dolan, Anja J.E. Dirkzwager, Louisa Degenhardt, Gabriel J Culbert, Peer Brehm Christensen, Thomas Clausen, Chuan-Yu Chen, Rohan Borschmann, Shabbar I Ranapurwala, Lia N Pizzicato, Eamonn O'Moore, Jeffrey Morenoff, Akm Moniruzzaman, Lars Møller, Sungwoo Lim, Fiona G Kouyoumdjian, Azar Karaminia, Florence Huber, Yen-Fang Huang, Daniel Pratt, Scott F Proescholdbell, Stuart A Kinner, Bin Zhao, Melissa Willoughby, Nadia Wang, Kendra M Viner, Marc F Stern, Anne C Spaulding, Julian M Somers, Amanda Slaunwhite, Jenny Shaw, Meghan E Shanahan, David Harding

  Published online: Feb 25, 2020

• The Population Health Research Network - Population Data Centre Profile

  Felicity Flack, Merran Smith

  Published online: Nov 20, 2019

• The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research (RDC-IAB)

  Linked Microdata for Labour Market Research

  Manfred Antoni, Alexandra Schmucker

  Published online: Nov 20, 2019

• Cohort profile: The Secure Anonymised Information Linkage databank Dementia e-cohort (SAIL-DeC)

  Christian Schnier, Tim Wilkinson, Ashley Akbari, Chris Orton, Kristel Sleegers, John Gallacher, Ronan A Lyons, Cathie LM Sudlow

  Published online: Feb 25, 2020

• Thirty-three myths and misconceptions about population data: from data capture and processing to linkage

  Peter Christen, Rainer Schnell

  Published online: Jan 31, 2023

• UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC): The National Trusted Research Environment for Longitudinal Research

  Andy Boyd, Katharine M. Evans, Emma Turner, Robin Flaig, Jacqui Oakley, Kirsteen C. Campbell, Richard Thomas, Stela McLachlan, Matthew Crane, To view the complete list of authors, please see the PDF

  Published online: Feb 17, 2025

• Understanding data provenance when using electronic medical records for research: Lessons learned from the Deliver Primary Healthcare Information (DELPHI) database

  Jason Edward Black, Amanda L. Terry, Sonny Cejic, Thomas R Freeman, Daniel J. Lizotte, Scott McKay, Mark Speechley, Bridget Ryan

  Published online: Sep 28, 2023

• Understanding Inequalities in Adult Social Care in Wales: Protocol for the CARE Lab Linked Administrative Data Study

  Fiona Victoria Lugg-Widger, Ashley Akbari, Rebecca Cannings-John, Oliver S Cumming, Matthew Curds, Miranda Evans, José-Luis Fernandez, Henrietta Graham, Mala Mann, Melissa Meindl, Abigail Palmer, Lisa Trigg, Nell Warner, Paul Willis, Julie Wych, Simone Willis, Jonathan Scourfield

  Published online: Aug 3, 2026

• Unmet need for chronic mental ill health: A population-based record linkage study

  Michael Rosato, Foteini Tseliou, Dermot O'Reilly

  Published online: Nov 29, 2019

• Use of administrative record linkage to measure medical and social risk factors for early developmental vulnerability in Ontario, Canada

  Natasha Ruth Saunders, Magdalena Janus, Joan Porter, Hong Lu, Ashley Gaskin, Gangamma Kalappa, Astrid Guttmann

  Published online: Feb 11, 2021

• Using Canadian administrative health data to measure the health of caregivers of children with and without health problems: A demonstration of feasibility.

  Predicting maternal health based on child health

  Jamie C Brehaut, Anne Guèvremont, Rubab G Arim, Rochelle E Garner, Anton R Miller, Kimberlyn M McGrail, Marni Brownell, Lucyna M. Lach, Peter L. Rosenbaum, Dafna E Kohen

  Published online: Apr 20, 2021

• Using data linkage to monitor COVID-19 vaccination

  Development of a vaccination linked data repository

  Tom Eitelhuber, Sera Ngeh, Lauren Bloomfield, Bhaval Chandaria, Paul Effler

  Published online: Dec 15, 2022

• Using data to improve the health of coastal communities: The Coda Network

  Martyn Patel, Elizabeth Ford, Emily Murray , Phil Ward

  Published online: Mar 11, 2026

• Using graph theory to flexibly construct patient journeys in linked healthcare data

  Ian Powell, Zhisheng Sa, Branislav Igic, Maria Alfaro-Ramirez, Rachel Farber, Michael Nelson

  Published online: Oct 9, 2025