Demographic Questions

Standardized patient level demographic data collection started in 2013 in downtown Toronto Hospitals following the “Measuring Health Equity in Toronto Central LHIN” mandate. This Toronto Central LHIN mandate outlined a set of standardized demographic questions focused on 8 demographic variables: spoken language, Canadian-born, ethnicity/race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, income, # of people income support. Furthermore, this mandate sought to introduce a standardized data collection effort that would secure access to patient demographic data and promote system-level approach to health equity. Community Health Centres have a long history of collecting patient and client-level demographic data and by joining the Measuring Health Equity in Toronto Central LHIN mandate in 2014, they have adopted the standardized set of 8 demographic questions.