{"id":25530,"date":"2020-12-04T16:27:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=25530"},"modified":"2020-12-04T16:27:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:27:20","slug":"canadas-largest-ever-population-health-survey-reveals-pandemics-effect-in-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/canadas-largest-ever-population-health-survey-reveals-pandemics-effect-in-british-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s largest-ever population health survey reveals pandemic&#8217;s effect in British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results of a survey of close to 400,000 British Columbians is now accessible to the public.\u00a0 \u00a0The \"Your Story-Our Future\" survey is the largest-ever population health survey in Canada.\u00a0 BC's Deputy Provincial Health Officer says questions were asked about whether people were able to obey public health orders, how the pandemic affected their incomes, their home life, their social circles their mental health and activities along with the services they access.\u00a0 Dr. Reka Gustafson says the results helped public health officials understand who is most affected by the pandemic and how.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25530-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clip-GUSTAFSON-results-of-most-affected-in-pandemic-survey.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clip-GUSTAFSON-results-of-most-affected-in-pandemic-survey.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/clip-GUSTAFSON-results-of-most-affected-in-pandemic-survey.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Gustafson says the data led to public health orders that maintained access to daycare, in-class education and sports activities for children and young adults.\u00a0 It also led to the creation of the single site policy, enabling long term care workers to stay at one care home by increasing their pay and their hours.\u00a0 The survey results can be displayed as provincial results, regional results and even neighbourhood results.\u00a0 Those results can be broken down further into age, ethnicity and other variables and can also be compared to other regions within the province.\u00a0 The survey was taken in May 2020, just as BC was starting to bend the curve in the first wave of the pandemic.\u00a0 Researchers hope to raise enough money to launch a second survey to measure how British Columbians are faring in this second wave.\u00a0 You can access the survey at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bccdc.ca\/covid19survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.bccdc.ca\/covid19survey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of a survey of close to 400,000 British Columbians is now accessible to the public.\u00a0 \u00a0The &#8220;Your Story-Our Future&#8221; survey is the largest-ever population health survey in Canada.\u00a0 BC&#8217;s Deputy Provincial Health Officer says questions were asked about whether people were able to obey public health orders, how the pandemic affected their incomes,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":25539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,223],"tags":[488,284,286,3897,3896,427,3895],"radio":[240],"origine":[280,265,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25530"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=25530"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=25530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}