Edmonton suicide trends

The data is derived from the AHS Injury Surveillance Dashboard. The AHS Dashboard gathers data throughout regional zones in Alberta. This report focuses in on the Local Geographic Areas within the City of Edmonton. The dashboard was most recently updated in August 2020. This most recent data is presented in this document.
Data sources are
• National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS)
• Inpatient Discharge Abstract Database (DAD)
• Vital Statistics Deaths
• Health Link
The city of Edmonton is composed of 15 smaller regions called Local Geographic Areas (LGAs). LGAs were defined for the purposes of planning, monitoring, and surveillance and deep dive studies, particularly for health planning (Alberta Health & Alberta Health Services, 2018). The slides are ordered from the LGA’s with the  highest crude rates to the those with the lowest crude rates. Rates are available for Emergency Department/Urgent Care Centre Visits (ED/UCC), Hospitalizations and Mortality. The same person may be captured in more than one of these datasets if their injuries occurred at different points in time. If a person’s injuries led to emergency department, hospitalization and subsequent mortality for the same event, they would be included only in the most severe injury dataset (e.g., mortality). The data represents a person’s home address. If a person went to an Emergency Department far away from their home, the data would still be collected in their home LGA.