Public Health Unit (PHU) Office Locations

Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83"

Abstract:

This data set contains the address locations of Public Health Unit (PHU) offices in Ontario.

A Public Health Unit is an official health agency established by a group of urban and rural municipalities to provide a more efficient community health program. There are 36 Public Health Units in Ontario. Health units administer health promotion and disease prevention programs to inform the public about healthy life-styles, communicable disease control including education in STDs/AIDS, immunization, food premises inspection, healthy growth and development including parenting education, health education for all age groups and selected screening services. PHUs and Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) represent administrative Health Regions in Ontario.

Metadata Information

Language: eng; CAN

Last Update: 2014-05-22

Metadata Contact:
Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

Contact Instructions:
gis@scholarsportal.info

Metadata Standard:
North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information
Citation Information

Series
Name: Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Toronto Ontario, Canada

Themes or Categories of the Resource: health

Keywords:
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG-TERM CARE, HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS, BOUNDARY, HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH

Health, Santé, Health care facilities, Établissement de santé, Community services, Services communautaires, Health promotion, Promotion de la santé

Place Keywords:
Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

Dataset Language: eng; CAN

Status: completed

Update Frequency: unknown

Spatial Representation Type: vector

Extent

West Longitude: -94.502345

East Longitude: -74.735178

North Latitude: 49.766634

South Latitude: 42.308655

Supplemental Information:
Spatial Representation - Vector

Geometric Objects:

Object Type: point

Object Count: 36
Reference System Information

Reference System Identifier

Value: 4269

Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/
Data Quality Information

Scope Level: dataset
Distribution Information

Distributor:

Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange (OGDE), Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) Peterborough Ontario, Canada

Public Health Unit (PHU) Office Locations

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Spatial Representation - Vector

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