B.C. Ministry of Health Geographies Portal
Published by Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies
About this dataset
The B.C. Ministry of Health has overall responsibility for ensuring that quality, appropriate, cost effective, and timely health services are available for all British Columbians. One of the standards available that enable analysis and reporting of information for specific populations in B.C. is the Ministry’s geography classification. This classification is maintained by the Health Sector Information, Analysis and Reporting Division and includes Health Authorities (HA), Health Service Delivery Areas (HSDA), Local Health Areas (LHA), and Community Health Service Areas (CHSA). The CHSA is the most recent addition to the geography classification. The geographies are nested, meaning that each HA is comprised of multiple HSDAs, each HSDA is comprised of multiple LHAs, and each LHA is comprised of one or multiple CHSAs. The geographies encompass all of B.C. so the classification is exhaustive of all land area in the province. The online maps allow users to engage with any of these geography levels. This collection of maps presents version 2022 of the Ministry geography classification released in April 2023, as well as population data from the 2021 Census of Population.