Health Inequities in Manitoba: Is the Socioeconomic Gap

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Acknowledgements
This quick turnaround report was made possible due to the immense expertise and support of many
individuals. As Principal Investigator (Dr. Patricia Martens) and co–Principal Investigator (Dr. Marni
Brownell), we wish to acknowledge our MCHP “Team” for their dedication to completing this report
within very tight timelines, to be able to meet the needs of policy–makers and planners for information
towards a provincial report on the health of Manitobans. We also want to thank the Advisory Group
(Dr. Lawrence Elliott, Dr. Shelley Buchan, Dr. Marcia Anderson, Dr. Patricia Caetano, Dr. Colleen Metge,
Dr. Rob Santos, and Karen Serwonka) for putting in effort way beyond the regular Advisory Group—for
meeting several times over the period of a few months, helping decide upon indicators, helping write
up sections of the report, and helping with revisions. As such, they became co–authors of the report.
We would also like to thank others for their assistance and advice along the way. With apologies to those
whose names have been inadvertently omitted, we wish to thank the following:
Colleagues at MCHP for their assistance, advice and production of foundational work for the report:
• Shelley Derksen for her skills in assigning Census income quintiles to the population.
• Charles Burchill for his creativity in mapping the income quintile information.
• Dr. Dan Chateau and Randy Walld for their advice in appropriate statistical tests for differences in
Gini calculations.
• Bogdan Bogdanovic for his consultation in identifying dental extractions in Manitoba.
• Dr. Randy Fransoo, Dr. Les Roos, and Dr. Alan Katz for their valuable input on the report.
• The staff at MCHP who helped prepare, edit, review, and layout the report: Leanne Rajotte, Sara
Dueck, Songul Bozat–Emre, Jessica Jarmasz, Eleanor Van Delden, Kari-Lynn McGowan, and Angela
Bailly.
• This report builds on previous MCHP reports, so we are grateful to the many MCHP scientists who
assisted in the development and validation of many indicators replicated in this report.
Other colleagues in the University of Manitoba:
• Dr. Ruth Ann Marrie for her consultation in defining Multiple Sclerosis within the Manitoban
population.
• Dr. Robert Schroth for his consultation in defining dental surgeries in the Manitoba child
population.
We wish to thank our reviewers, the external reviewer Dr. Russell Wilkins of Statistics Canada and the
MCHP senior reader of this report Greg Finlayson. Their wonderful suggestions, edits and comments
really added to the final research report.
We acknowledge the Faculty of Medicine Research Ethics Board for their review of this project. The
Health Information Privacy Committee of Manitoba is kept informed of all MCHP deliverables for
Manitoba Health. Strict policies and procedures were followed in producing this report, to protect the
privacy and security of the Repository data. We would like to thank Deborah Malazdrewicz (Executive
Director) and the Health Information Management Branch at Manitoba Health for their efforts in making
these data available in an anonymized form to the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. Thank you as well
to Vital Statistics for use of mortality data.