Impact on Health Information is a critical component when decisions are made about what must be done.
Action is essential if a society is to change and develop.
However, action that fails to take full account of what works and what does not work may not be useful and, indeed, may even be harmful. It is in this perspective that we have prepared this third annual report on the population 's health. We have focused,in particular, on the impact that these changes have had on what, in our view, is the most basic factor in the health care system, i.e. Montrealers' health. Our report centres on health policy throughout the region. The analyses undertaken focus on the network considered as a system and not on the specific organizations that it comprises and much less on the individual practitioners working in the system.