Exploring how policy, economics, And data shape population health.
Welcome to Dr. Daniel Dutton’s research group information page. Our group’s research focuses on what governments can do to mitigate bad distributions of the social determinants of health. Governments change outcomes via policies, so all our work has policy implications.
About
Most of our team’s research can be grouped under one of these two initiatives.
Seed projects are concerned with the impact of policy on health by its influence on the social determinants of health.
Sprout projects use administrative health data to conduct studies concerned with drug policy, use, and outcomes in Canada (called “pharmacoepidemiology” projects).
Atlantic Canadian governments have immense potential to improve population health by using the data they already gather to study what works. Research connects people who care about the answer to a problem with those who can do something about it.
Our Process
Our team works with academics, governments, and non-profit organizations to co-create research that solves problems related to policy evaluation or effect measurement. We use big data and quantitative methods to create real world evidence. Provinces routinely gather much of the data we use, but we also use survey data and publicly available spending or health information. Creating an effective research question requires this familiarity the data landscape.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions about how we work, student supervision and Community Health and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University, Atlantic province research across jurisdictions, and so on.
Our Team
Our team works with academics, governments, and non-profit organizations to co-create research that solves problems related to policy evaluation or effect measurement in big data by creating real world evidence. Click to learn more about staff and students working this this research group.
Affiliate Groups
Associate Professor
Research Fellow
Adjunct Professor Sociology
Associate Scientist
Research Affiliate
