Page ii Executive Summary In 2001, the area of the Waterloo Wellington Local Health Compared to the province of Ontario, a considerably Integration Network (LHIN) was home to 633,500 lower percentage of the Waterloo Wellington LHIN people, or 5.6% of Ontario’s population1 spread across 17 population: census subdivisionsi (CSDs), ranging in population from 5,900 (less than 1% of the Waterloo Wellin [...] In all other maps, the break between the second Interpretation of the Maps and third classes is the median of the data. [...] As a complement, the comments for each map are included The first three maps presented in this report set the and may refer to the value of the variable across the context for the remaining maps and results. [...] The importance of these links, suggesting that the most methodology for the construction of the index is important determinants of human health are the social outlined in detail. [...] A measurement of the associated with health status may not be adequately percentage of the population below the low income cut- captured by an analysis of individuals alone.5,10,12 In off (LICO) not only captures deprivation but is also fact, aggregate measures of health status and the social designed to control for family size and urban/rural determinants of health form one of the basic tools of