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PHO is providing co-ordinated leadership and support for the planning of ORBSS, a provincewide surveillance system aimed at producing estimates of health behaviours, attitudes and other risk factors.
The proposed system will build on Ontario’s existing surveillance infrastructure and systems to help local health units fulfill the requirements of the Ontario Public Health Standards, and to generate quality provincial-level data for the purposes of surveillance, research, policy development and evaluation.
An advisory committee, led and centrally supported by PHO, has been established to propose a plan for ORBSS. Over the next year, the committee will conduct an environmental scan of existing surveillance systems and approaches; articulate potential system models; oversee a provincewide consultation process; make recommendations; assist with the development of a business case for funding; and advise on the implementation of an ORBSS pilot. |
