Category: CARI
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CARI+ Dataset – Birth Services
This version of the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+) measures access to public high schools in Canada via travel time and distance. Rural obstetrical care in Canada has limited local access, meaning many women must travel, sometimes over several hours, to give birth. Care is often provided by fewer specialists and more family physicians,…
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Mapping Access to Birth Services in Canada
This research uses the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+) to describe access to obstetrical and birth services across Canada via travel time and distance. Rural obstetrical care in Canada has limited local access, meaning many women must travel, sometimes over several hours, to give birth. Care is often provided by fewer specialists and more…
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CARI+ Dataset – Population Centres
This generalized version of the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+) measures rurality using a population-weighted score to population centres by travel time and distance. The CARI+ is a flexible, small-area methodology that quantifies accessibility based on road-network travel time and distance to population centres and service-specific locations. The CARI+ builds on international best practices…
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CARI+ Dataset – High Schools
This version of the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+) measures access to public high schools in Canada via travel time and distance. Access to education is recognized as a fundamental social determinant of health. It’s been shown that the trip from home and school is the most common travel activity amongst Children in Canada.…
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CARI+ Dataset – Youth Mental Health Facilities
Accessibility to facilities in Ontario that treat and diagnose Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in children and youth. The mental health crisis in Canadian children and youth has grown rapidly over the past decade (1). Today, an estimated ~20% of Canadian children will experience a mental…
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CARI+ Dataset – Pharmacies in Ontario
Access to pharmacies in Ontario, Canada is calculated using the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+) via travel time and distance to publicly accessible pharmacies. It is well understood that individuals residing in more urban regions have fewer barriers to healthcare access than those in rural areas, due to the abundant presence of accompanying allied…
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CARI+ Dataset – Emergency Departments
Accessibility to 24-hour emergency services in Canada is measured by travel time and distance using the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index methodology. In a publicly funded, universal health care system like Canada’s, the principal expectation is that every member of the population has equal and equitable access to healthcare services. Although there is general agreement…
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Mapping Access to High Schools in Canada
Rural access to high schools is presented in an ArcGIS StoryMap describing the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+) for accessibility to public secondary schools via travel time and distance. What is it and why are we doing it? Travel to and from school is the most common daily travel activity for children in Canada,…
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Mapping Access to 24-hour emergency departments
Access to 24-hour Emergency Departments across Canada is calculated via the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+) for travel time and distance. What is it and why are we doing it? This project looks at access to hospitals with 24-hour emergency departments across Canada by estimating how far people need to travel and how long…
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Mapping the CARI+
Rurality in Canada is presented in an ArcGIS StoryMap describing the Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+) calculated for each population centre via travel time and distance. What is it and why are we doing it? The Canadian Accessibility and Remoteness Index (CARI+) is used to describe how easy or difficult it is for people…