Inventory of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Environmental and Occupational Health Data
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Inventory of Data Sources

Referentiel Territorial (M34) (Territorial Referential Database, Québec )

Contact
Michel Blondeau
Pilote d'orientation et opérationnel
Direction générale de a coordination ministérielle et des relations avec le réseau (DGCMRR)
Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux
1075, chemin Ste-Foy, 4^ième étage
Québec , QC
G1S 2M1
Tel : (418) 266-7125
E-mail: michel.blondeau@msss.gouv.qc.ca

Organization Maintaining the Database
Service du développement de l'information, Direction générale adjointe aux ententes de gestion, Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux (MSSS), Québec

Purpose of Database
To provide information to public health professionals who need to update and standardize information on geographic constituencies of the Québec socio-health services network or of other databases.

Content
The database contains essentially data on correspondence of each territorial constituency of the social-health services network, for all of the information systems of the MSSS and of the social-health network. Current and historical data at the provincial, local, and municipal levels of the social-health network. Data types: geographic/cartographic. Geolocators: municipal codes, postal codes, longitudinal / latitudinal coordinates.

Data elements: codes and names of diverse territorial entities and the correspondence among them; postal code, municipal code, CLSC, RSS, TSS, ambulance zone, SAT territory, MRC, RADM, CEP, THQ, DR, SDR, SR, AD.

There are approximately 500,000 records in the database.

Year Database Established
Not specified

Coverage Period
1990 to 2003

Data Updates
Annually

Data Provider
Ministère des affaires municipales; Institut de la statistique du Québec ; Statistics Canada; Canada Post; Direction générale de a coordination ministérielle et des relations avec le réseau (DGCMRR), Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux (MSSS).

Data Availability
Data are available free of charge on the MSSS web site. The database can be used by all public health professionals who need to update and standardize information on geographic constituencies of the Quebec social-health services network or of other databases; also, anyone interested in the Québec territorial constituencies and their correspondence. Website URL:
http://www.msss.gouv.qc.ca/f/statistiques/dectergo.htm

Reports
Reports on lists of codes and names of territorial constituencies of the Quebec social-health services network.