Local Health Area Boundaries

Local Health Area (LHA) boundaries; 2022 boundary configuration. The LHAs are a mutually exclusive and exhaustive classification of the land area in BC. LHAs are contiguous (land area is geographically adjacent) and fit within an existing geographical hierarchy structure, e.g., cannot violate higher-level geography boundaries such as the Health Service Delivery Areas (HSDA) and Health Authorities (HA).

Date ( RI_367 ): 2019-04-01

Date ( RI_366 ): 2007-04-24

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies - ( )

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies - ( )

RI_409

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies - ( )

Status: onGoing; enContinue RI_596

Maintenance and update frequency: irregular; irrégulier RI_541

Keywords ( RI_528 )

Health
Health Authority
Health Boundary
LHA
Local Health Area

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )

Government information

Use limitation: Open Government Licence - British Columbia (https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/open-data/open-government-licence-bc)

Access constraints: license; licence RI_606

Use constraints: license; licence RI_606

Spatial representation type: grid; grille RI_636

Metadata language: eng; CAN

Metadata language: fra; CAN

Topic category

Boundaries

Begin date: 0001-01-01

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Reference system identifier: EPSG / EPSG:3005 / unknown

Reference system identifier: EPSG / EPSG:4326 / unknown

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RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies - ( )

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies - ( )

RI_409

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies - ( )

OnLine resource: BC Geographic Warehouse Custom Download ( HTTPS )
Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource: Original metadata (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca) ( HTTPS )
Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource: BCHA_LOCAL_HEALTH_AREA_SP ( HTTPS )
Dataset;KML;eng

OnLine resource: BCHA_LOCAL_HEALTH_AREA_SP ( OGC:WMS )
Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource: BCHA_LOCAL_HEALTH_AREA_SP ( OGC:WMS )
Web Service;WMS;eng

File identifier: afd021d9-7722-4410-b506-d394c66e74fc XML

Metadata language: eng; CAN

Character set: utf8; utf8 RI_458

Hierarchy level: dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622

Date stamp: 2025-07-08

Metadata standard name: North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata

Metadata standard version: HNAP ISO:19115 - 2003

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies - ( )

RI_414

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies - ( )

RI_409

Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; Performance, Partnerships and Methodologies - ( )

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