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๐ข Closing soon!
The call for papers for our IJPDS Focus Issue People and the Criminal Justice System closes 31 October 2026.
Research using population-based and administrative data is welcome.
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#PopulationData #CriminalJustice
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Australia has many of the building blocks for a national population data resource.
A new case study explores how research infrastructure, policy frameworks and partnerships could help connect data to improve health and wellbeing.
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Almost 3.72 million adults. One national linked data resource.
A new cohort profile explores how disability and living arrangements relate to COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland, with potential applications beyond the pandemic.
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What happens to the health of children who experience foster care as they grow older?
The CanFos data resource links Canadian Census, health & mortality records to explore long-term outcomes and opportunities for better support
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1.4 million people. 51 million healthcare visit-events. 62 million medication exposure records.
A new Data Resource Profile published in IJPDS brings together Thailand's routine healthcare data to support longitudinal diabetes research.
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AI doing the heavy lifting. Humans providing the expertise.
New research explores how large language models can help classify Canada's child care workforce using 57,135 Census responses.
A promising approach to better workforce planning.
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We know social circumstances affect health. But are hospitals recording them?
New research examining 10,659 hospital admissions in Canada reveals gaps in how housing, employment and other social factors are documented in patient records.
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๐ IJPDS Editor's Pick!
Dr Yang Lu selects research using graph theory to reconstruct complex patient journeys from linked hospital records.
Includes journeyer, an open-source R package.
doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v10i1โฆ
#IJPDS #HealthData
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๐ IJPDS Editor's Pick
Dr Emma Gordon selects new research exploring neurodevelopmental conditions among care-experienced children in Wales.
Discover how linked data can help identify support needs.
doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v11i1โฆ
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Children don't live their lives in data silos. So why should their records?
New research uses machine learning to link school and healthcare records in NYC, opening up opportunities to better understand children's health and education.
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The UK has world-leading longitudinal studies, yet few are linked to children's social care records.
A new review explores how connecting these datasets could improve our understanding of children's lives and the support they need.
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No single Canadian study follows people across the entire life course
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New research explores potential of data harmonisation to unlock insights into lifelong health
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Can Canada's existing health data tell us more about health across a lifetime?
New IJPDS research identifies 14 studies covering 9m+ participants and explores how data harmonisation could bridge the gaps.
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#LifeCourse #longitudinaldata
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๐ข Closing soon!
The call for papers for our IJPDS Focus Issue: People and the Criminal Justice System closes 31 October 2026.
Research using population-based and administrative data is welcome.
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#PopulationData #CriminalJustice
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No single service holds the complete picture of a child's needs
Linking health, education & social care records for almost 127,000 children reveals striking differences in recorded neurodevelopmental conditions among care-experienced children
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Linked data can reveal what local children & families need โ but generating evidence isn't enough.
New IJPDS research asks what early years decision-makers need to turn linked data insights into real-world policy and practice.
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๐ข CALL DEADLINE EXTENDED
Thereโs now more time to submit to the IJPDS Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Population Data Science
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New deadline: 11 December 2026
AI + population-level data + real-world societal challenges?
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๐๐ผ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐น๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ต?
A new study of 12,075 adults in South Korea found education the most consistent socioeconomic predictor of obesity, while current income showed a weaker association
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Publishing clinical codelists has improved research transparency and reproducibility โ but which codelist should researchers use?
A new IJPDS study finds considerable variation between published codelists for the same health conditions.
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Researchers can lose months navigating data access requirements.
Could making those rules machine-readable speed things up โ without weakening governance?
New research in IJPDS proposes a framework to do just that. ๐
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