After Alberta experienced its deadliest month on record for opioid deaths, some health researchers are calling for the province to return to releasing neighbourhood-level data, arguing that doing so could help save lives.
But the provincial government isn’t committed to doing so yet, telling CBC News in an email that there are concerns tied to privacy.
Elaine Hyshka is the Canada Research Chair in health systems innovation at the University of Alberta’s School of Public Health. She said researchers are often waiting on the province to release timely data, even though numbers started to climb around 2015.
Neighbourhood-level data in Edmonton and Calgary and trends in the spatial
