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Measure how people in different groups experience health and well-being, and identify the interaction between systems that create inequities.Integrate data into organizational research reports, funding applications, or advocacy for change.How service providers can use the dataĮxamples of how service providers and non-profit organizations can use disaggregated data from the Healthy City Dashboard include: Over time, our goal is to continue to grow the Healthy City Dashboard to encompass a diverse set of data and indicators that reflect the experiences and needs of communities across the city. We've begun preliminary work with Indigenous communities to identify indicators and will continue to work with communities to centre Indigenous perspectives and rights in the Healthy City Strategy. As a City of Reconciliation, we are particularly committed to forming respectful relationships with Indigenous communities that acknowledges and supports their agency over data and policy. The Healthy City Dashboard is an important tool for measuring equity as an outcome, but ongoing work is needed to ground this data in the experiences and aspirations of communities in the city.

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Vancouver’s Equity Framework PDF file (553 KB) defines equity as both a process and outcome. Providing neighbourhood-level data helps users and service providers to better understand the inequities in the social and economic factors that influence well-being in specific neighbourhoods, and supports the efforts of local communities to build community health equity in communities across the city.

This shows how systems like racism and ageism interact with other factors that influence our health and well-being and lead to different outcomes for individuals and communities.

For example, users can now view data in the Healthy City Dashboard on how many people live in income poverty, separated into categories like racial identity, age, or immigration status. This enhancement will help us and local service providers better meet the diverse needs of communities in Vancouver.ĭisaggregated data is data that has been further separated into segments or categories. We've enhanced the Healthy City Dashboard, which monitors Vancouver’s work to build equitable communities, to offer users more detailed information by providing disaggregated data.

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