Active Research Accessing the Repository
Data housed in the Repository at MCHP is used for more than commissioned MCHP reports. The list below contains active projects that access data within the Repository by researchers at the University of Manitoba and beyond.


Alessi-Severini, Silvia: Use of Antipsychotic Agents in Manitoba:  Prescribing and Cost-Effectiveness

Alessi-Severini, Silvia: Use of Psychotropic Medications in Manitoba: A Population-Based Study

Anderson, Kristin: Burden of Diabetes in Manitoba

Balogh, Rob: Primary care access among persons with an intellectual disability in Manitoba

Bartlett, Judith: Diabetes and Related Health Care Utilization in the Manitoba Metis Population

Bartlett, Judith: Depression, Anxiety Disorders, and Related Health Care Utilization in the Manitoba Metis Population

Bartlett, Judith: Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) and Related Health Care Utilization in the Manitoba Metis Population

Becker, Allan: Origins of Asthma in Childhood: The Role of Gene: Environment Interactions

Bolton, James: Consequences of Suicide Bereavement: A Population-Based Study in Manitoba

Bolton, James: Physical Disease and the Risk of Suicide: A Study of the Manitoba Population

Bozat-Emre, Songul: Temporal Association between Atypical Antipsychotic Medication Use and Falls Among Personal Care Home Residents in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority”

Brownell, Marni: Inequalities in Child Health: Assessing the Roles of Family, Community, Education, and Health Care

Brownell, Marni: Changes Across Time in Rates of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Psychostimulant Medication Use

Brownell, Marni: Unpacking the Gradient. Digging Deeper: Who? What? When? Why? How?

Brownell, Marni: Educational Attainment and Health Status for Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Do Medications Make a Difference?  A Feasibility Study

Brownell, Marni: Monitoring Early Literacy Intervention in Manitoba

Brownell, Marni: Combining Clinic Data on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) with Administrative Data on Health, Education and Social Services: Exploring the Feasibility of Using Administrative Data to Identify Children with FASD

Brownell, Marni: Combining Clinic Data on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) With Administrative Data on Health, Education and Social Services: Analysis of Service Utilization

Brownell, Marni: Child Maltreatment In Manitoba: Using Hospital Discharge and Child Protection Data For International Comparisons Of Trends

Burland, Elaine: The Evaluation of a Fall Management Program in a Personal Care Home (PCH)

Carr, Rachel: The Process and Outcome of Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization in a Canadian City

Cui, Yang: The Economic Evaluation Of Manitoba Health Lines In Chronic Disease Management Of Congestive Heart Failure

Dart, Allison: The Natural History of Youth Onset Type 2 Diabetes in a Cohort of Manitoba Children and Adolescents

Distasio, Jino: Mental Health Commission of Canada Research Demonstration Project in Mental Health and Homelessness (Winnipeg): Repository Pilot Study

Doupe, Malcolm: Linking a Minimum Data Set with Administrative Data in Manitoba to Assess How These Records Agree and to Pilot Test if They Can Better Define Admissions to Nursing Homes

Doupe, Malcolm: Performing Activities of Daily Living Tasks: Determining Why Some Nursing Home Residents Experience Declines in Function

Elias, Brenda: Manitoba First Nations Health Report Card: A Collaborative Network Project to Understand Health Disparities – Indicators of Population Health Status for Registered First Nations People Living in Manitoba

Finlayson, Greg: Allocating Funds for Health Care to Manitoba Regional Health Authorities (Thesis)

Forget, Evelyn: The Town with No Poverty: The Long-term Consequences of a Canadian Guaranteed Annual Income Social Experiment

Fransoo, Randy: How Does Health Status at Birth and Throughout Childhood Affect Children's Performance in School?

Fransoo, Randy: Sex Differences in Death Rates after Heart  Attack over 20 Years

Fransoo, Randy: Temporal Trends and Sex Differences in Acute Myocardial Infarction Incidence, Mortality, and Treatments in Manitoba: 1979 to 2010

Fuchs, Don: Economic Impact of Children in Care with FASD

Garland, Allan: Program:  The Interface Between Critical Illness & Chronic Inflammatory Disease

Heaman, Maureen: Predictors and Outcomes of Prenatal Care: Vital Information for Future Service Planning

Heaman, Maureen: Pathways Between Pre- and Post-natal Maternal Psychological Distress and Childhood Anxiety

Heron, Darcy: Stress response patterns in children who develop asthma subsequent to maternal distress

Hiebert, Brett: Familial Aggregation of Childhood Health and the Socioeconomic Gradient of Disease: A Longitudinal Population-Based Sibling Analysis

Hobson, Douglas: Who Isn’t Receiving Care in Manitoba? A Study of Variation in the Prevalence and Incidence of Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and their Patterns of Medical Care in Manitoba, 1984-2006.”

Jutte, Doug: The Apgar Score as an Early Measure of Resilience

Katz, Alan: Testing the Effectiveness of Health Lines in Chronic Disease Management of Congestive Heart Failure

Katz, Alan: CIHR/CCMB Team in Primary Care Oncology Research (program)

Katz, Alan: Healthcare System Sustainability through Longitudinal Efficiency:Improved Quality and Lower Costs

Katz, Alan: Canadian Perspectives on the Quality of Primary Health Care

Katz, Alan: Impact of Policy Guideline Variation on Outcomes of Novel H1N1 Influenza in Aboriginal Communities in BC, MB, and ON

Katz, Laurence: Morbidity and Mortality of Children and Adolescents in the Child Welfare System

Khan, Sazzadul: Does Respiratory tract infection by Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in the first two years of life contributes to the development of asthma among children in Manitoba

Kozyrskyj, Anita: Do Antibiotics in Early Life Contribute to the Development of Asthma in Children

Kozyrskyj, Anita: Maternal Distress and the Development of Atopic Disease in Children Potential Pathways and Interventions

Kraut, Allen: Characteristics and outcomes of patients leaving hospital against medical advice

Kryger, Meir: Impact of Obesity and Sleep Disorders on Health

Kwong, Jeff: Evaluation of Ontario's Universal Immunization Program: Phase II

Lam, Kenneth: Who Are the High Users of Health Care Services?  Determinants and Stability of Health Care Expenditure Trajectories in Manitoba

Lavoie, Josee: Using Evidence to Identify the Need for Investments in Primary Health Care Services on Manitoba First Nation Reserves

Leslie, William D.: Epidemiologic Study of Osteoporosis in Aboriginal Manitobans

Leslie, William D.: First Nations Bone Health Study (FNBHS II) - Longitudinal Measurements and Outcomes

Leslie, William D.: Program: Epidemiology of Osteoporosis in Manitoba

Leslie, William D.: Economic Burden of Osteoporosis In Manitoba And Canada

Leslie, William D.: Proposed Framework for Feasibility Studies on Osteoporosis Surveillance using Provincial/Territorial Administrative Data

Lix, Lisa: Defining and Validating Chronic Disease Algorithms in an ICD-10-CA Coding Environment

Lix, Lisa: Comparison of Risk-Adjustment Methods for the Study of Chronic Disease Outcomes

Lix, Lisa: Classification Algorithms to Distinguish Chronic Disease Cases from Non-Cases in Administrative Data

Manuel, Douglas: Population Health Impact Assessment Tools - for Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 (PHIAT-DM)

Martens, Patricia: MCHP Training Data Repository, Development of a Training Resource

Martens, Patricia: From Evidence to Action: Addressing Challenges to Knowledge Translation in Regional Health Authorities

Martens, Patricia: Red River College Data

Martens, Patricia: Addressing the Landscape of End-of-Life for Patients with Schizophrenia

Martens, Patricia: The Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (cNODES)

McKay, Andrew: A Population-Based Analysis Of The Morbidity And Mortality Of Gallbladder Surgery In The Elderly

Menec, Verena: Western Canada End of Life Study

Menec, Verena: Population-Based Analysis of the Relation Between Neighbourhood and Individual Characteristics and Health Among Seniors

Mutter, Thomas: Incidence & Prevalence of Serious Postoperative Complications in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients: Retrospective Cohort Study and Nested Case-Control Analyses of Clinical and Adminisstrative Data

O'Neil, John: Centre for Aboriginal Health Research - ACADRE Training Program

Ouellette-Kuntz, Helene: Enhancing Surveillance of Pervasive Developmental Disorders in Canada

Raghavan, Malathi: Spatial and temporal differences in hospital prevalence of dog-bite injuries in Manitoba

Roos, Leslie: Exploring Alternative Funding Models for Canadian Health Care

Roos, Leslie: Child Health and Socioeconomic Status: A New Approach

Roos, Leslie: Avoiding Hospitalization:  Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions, Quality of Care, and Socioeconomic Status

Roos, Leslie: The Manitoba 10 Year Birth Cohort: Studying Long Term Outcomes Using Linked Databases

Roos, Noralou: Sustaining Canada's Lead in Health Information Infrastructure: Enhancing the Population Health Research Data Repository (CFI - NPR)

Roos, Noralou: Program: Success Despite the Odds: Identifying Factors that Promote Educational Success in High-Risk Adolescents

Rush-Sirski, Andrea: Using Spatial Epidemiology as a Tool to Better Understand Influenza-Like Illnesses: Lessons for Pandemic Preparedness

Ruth, Chelsea: The influence of socioeconomic status on morbidity in late preterm infants

Sheps, Sam: Western Regional Training Centre  for Health Services Research (WRTC)

Shooshtari, Shahin: Trajectories in Health and Use of Health Social Services by Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Population-based Study

Singh, Harminder: Complications Associated with Lower Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: A Population-Based Study

Skowronski, Danuta: Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Against Serious Outcomes

Smith, Mark: Provincial Territorial Administrative Databases for Surveillance of Asthma and COPD in Canada: Testing Feasibility of Revised Case Definitions

Smith, Mark: Examing the feasibility of using administrative data for cardiovascular disease surveillance in Manitoba

Torabi, Mahmoud: Spatial Modelling of Incidence Rates in the Province of Manitoba

Vasilyeva, Irina: Antipsychotic-induced adverse events in the elderly population of Manitoba

Yallop, Lauren: Rates of Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Manitoba Children: Considering the Socioeconomic Gradient Across Age Groups

Yallop, Lauren: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Manitoba Young Adults: A Population-Based Study