title: Outcomes of an investment in administrative data infrastructure: An example of capacity building at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy.
abstract: Using the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy as an example, this commentary discusses how even small investments in population health data can create a multitude of research benefits. The authors highlight that through infrastructure development such as acquiring databases, facilitating access to data and developing data management practices, new, innovative research can be achieved at relatively low cost.
authors.affiliation: College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB. Justine_Orr@cpe.umanitoba.ca.
authors.forename: Justine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Orr
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Burchill
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: Randy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fransoo
mesh_terms: D057191:Capacity Building; D006291:Health Policy; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000191:economics*; D007449:Investments; D008350:Manitoba