Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program Service Regions in Ontario

Ontario's Healthy Babies Healthy Children program provides risk screening, assessments, and referrals for families with children up to age 6. These shapefiles provide geospatial data for mapping the 34 program delivery regions across the province. The data is provided by the Government of Ontario and was last updated on March 25, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map public health service delivery regions based on the 34 defined boundaries.
• Analyze geographic coverage of early childhood support programs based on the described service areas.
• Integrate program region boundaries with other demographic or health datasets for spatial analysis.

Strengths

• Defines 34 distinct service delivery regions for program mapping.
• Boundaries are aligned with established Public Health Unit boundaries, ensuring administrative consistency.
• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats, including ESRI REST and shapefiles.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analyses.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official public health unit administrative boundaries.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 13:35:51.493599; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ontario, Canada