Information management and analysis
This cross-cutting field of expertise sheds light on the scope and evolution of various issues associated with health and well-being and enables better management and consideration of health information in decision-makign processes, while comntributing to the developement of new theories and methods for monitoring public health. The ongoing portrait of population health and the monitoring of social inequities are two priority analytical approaches. The public health Infocentre plays a role by conducting information-based (assistance in making decisions) and operational-based (support for screening programs) information systems activities and projects agreed upon by the public health system.