{"id":228367,"date":"2026-06-25T13:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/?p=228367"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:26:23","slug":"in-the-age-of-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/2026\/06\/25\/in-the-age-of-data\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Age of Data: Modernizing Manitoba\u2019s Health Card Through the Inclusion of a Linguistic Identity Marker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Access to safe, high\u2011quality health services depends on the ability to receive care in one\u2019s own language. In Manitoba, there is still a lack of essential data to fully understand the health status and service use of Francophone communities. The planned modernization of the Manitoba Health Card offers a unique opportunity to address this gap by integrating linguistic and cultural information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The position paper <em>In the Age of Data: Modernizing Manitoba\u2019s Health Card Through the Inclusion of a Linguistic Identity Marker<\/em> highlights why such data is crucial and how Manitoba could become a national leader in French\u2011language health services. <a href=\"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Linguistic-Identity-Marker_Health-Card-MB_march-2024_FINAL.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Linguistic-Identity-Marker_Health-Card-MB_march-2024_FINAL.pdf\">Download the full document<\/a> to explore the recommendations and the concrete impact a modernized health card could have for the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Linguistic-Identity-Marker_Health-Card-MB_march-2024_FINAL.pdf\">Consult the full Position Paper<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to safe, high\u2011quality health services depends on the ability to receive care in one\u2019s own language. In Manitoba, there is still a lack of essential data to fully understand the health status and service use of Francophone communities. The planned modernization of the Manitoba Health Card offers a unique opportunity to address this gap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,63,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-others","category-by-sante-en-francais","category-studies-and-documents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228368,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228367\/revisions\/228368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}