The Edmonton Social Planning Council has launched an online resource to help Edmontonians better understand social and economic issues in the city. The Social Well-Being Tracker hosts a range of information on topics such as employment, health, education and poverty, which make up what the organization calls Edmonton's "community health." "Presenting data at larger levels like Canada-wide or even Alberta-wide, you know, the local context can get lost in there." It launched the Social Well-Being Tracker on their website last week in order to make the information more widely available. Social determinants of health central to the tracker's dataThe council says data in the tracker is organized around the social determinants of health framework.

Source: CBC News July 20, 2021 12:56 UTC