What’s New
Click here to access our 2009 Alberta Diabetes Atlas, released on November 12, 2009. The Atlas contains information on the number of people living with diabetes in Alberta, their related health conditions, and the health services they use. New sections include: health care utilization costs of diabetes to the health system, as well as epidemiological trends for children and adolescents.
Click here to view our latest newsletter entitled ‘Health Care Costs for Children and Adults with Diabetes by Alberta Health Zone ’. In it, we have profiled health care costs for people with diabetes across Alberta's five health zones.
The Public Health Agency of Canada recently announced that the ADSS team will receive a second year of funding to continue its active dissemination efforts. The ADSS team's activities include providing primary care network visits, community specific data for evaluation and planning, and continued development of its interactive website, which will launch later this year.
We have recently created a figure that highlights diabetes prevalence in different Alberta communities. It’s interesting to note the Alberta communities with the highest and lowest prevalence. Click here to see more.
About the Alberta Diabetes
Surveillance System
As a key component of the Alberta Diabetes Strategy 2003-2013, the Alberta Diabetes Surveillance System (ADSS) was created in order to disseminate information on the incidence, prevalence and mortality of diabetes and its complications and comorbidities in Alberta. The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) and ACHORD are working closely with the Population Health Strategies and Surveillance Branches to produce this timely, comprehensive, standardized database for diabetes surveillance in Alberta. The ADSS is lead by Dr. Johnson and other ACHORD Investigators in addition to a number of collaborators from across Alberta with clinical and research backgrounds.