Health Indicators & Health-based Statistics

CancerCare Manitoba (CCMB) is the provincially mandated cancer agency and is responsible for setting strategic priorities and long-term planning for cancer and blood disorders. CCMB provides clinical services to both children and adults. The cancer services the organization provides to Manitobans include prevention, early detection, multidisciplinary cancer treatment, supportive and end-of-life care.

The following measures provide a summary picture of population health and health services use in Manitoba. The data is displayed in five categories representing the provincial health system: Demographics and Mortality; Disease and Injury
Medical and Hospital Services; Home Care Services and Personal Care Homes; Preventative Services and Prescription Drug Use

The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases.

This publication provides health professionals, researchers, policy-makers and the general public with detailed information about the burden of cancer in Canada. It is developed by the Canadian Cancer Statistics Advisory Committee through a partnership between the Canadian Cancer Society, the Public Health Agency of Canada and Statistics Canada in collaboration with the provincial and territorial cancer registries.

Click on "Data Trends" to see links to various reports including: Canadian Drug Trends; Canadian Substance Use Costs and Harms; Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU); National Treatment Indicators; and Student Drug Use Surveys

he Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System (CCDSS) is a collaborative network of provincial and territorial surveillance systems, supported by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The CCDSS enhances the scope of data on chronic diseases in Canada and supports the planning of health resources and the development of health policies and programs. It collects data on all residents who are eligible for provincial or territorial health insurance and can generate national estimates and trends over time for over 20 chronic diseases

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) provides comparable and actionable data and information that are used to accelerate improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across Canada. Our stakeholders use our broad range of health system databases, measurements and standards, together with our evidence-based reports and analyses, in their decision-making processes.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is Canada's federal funding agency for health research. Composed of 13 Institutes, we collaborate with partners and researchers to support the discoveries and innovations that improve our health and strengthen our health care system.

Canadian Public Health Association is the independent voice for public health in Canada with links to the international community. As the only Canadian non-governmental organization focused exclusively on public health, we are uniquely positioned to advise decision-makers about public health system reform and to guide initiatives to help safeguard the personal and community health of Canadians and people around the world.

The Cardiac Care Quality Indicators Report examines the results of 6 comparable pan-Canadian indicators on mortality and readmission outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), coronary artery bypass graft and aortic valve replacement.

The Community Information Database (CID) is a free internet-based resource developed to provide communities, researchers, and governments with access to consistent and reliable socio-economic and demographic data and information for all communities across Canada.

FNIGC is responsible for a wide-range of work, from research and planning to surveys and training. But our core responsibility is the development and administration of national First Nations survey initiatives with our Regional Partners. These currently include: the First Nations Regional Health Survey (FNRHS) and the First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey (FNREEES).

The Fraser Institute is an independent, non-partisan research and educational organization based in Canada. We have offices in Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for Canadians, their families, and future generations by studying, measuring, and broadly communicating the effects of government policies, entrepreneurship, and choice on their well-being.

Health indicators support provinces/territories, regional health authorities and institutions as they monitor the health of their populations and track how well their local health systems function. This page outlines: What’s the difference between metrics, indicators and performance indicators? Reporting; Methodology; and Key projects

Richer Canadians tend to be healthier and live longer than poorer Canadians. Our Trends in Income-Related Health Inequalities in Canada project examined whether the country and its provinces have made progress in this area over the past decade.

Find out for yourself: select an indicator to explore health inequalities by year and changes over time at national and provincial levels.

Access information about health science, research, data, monitoring and surveillance, and the determinants of health.

The Indicator Frameworks are pan-Canadian resources that provide measures of chronic diseases, mental health, risk and protective factors and associated determinants. Combined with the Data Tool platform, each measure within a Framework can be visualized.

Here you can find general statistics and information about lung health.

Notifiable Diseases Online presents information based on data from the Canadian Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (CNDSS). Nationally notifiable diseases are infectious diseases that have been identified by the federal government and provinces and territories as priorities for monitoring and control efforts. Through the CNDSS, provinces and territories voluntarily submit annual notifiable disease data, which are used to produce national disease counts and rates.

The Public Health Agency of Canada empowers Canadians to improve their health. In partnership with others, its activities focus on preventing disease and injuries, promoting good physical and mental health, and providing information to support informed decision making.

This website offers a selection of easy to use tools for accessing and viewing public health data. By using various search options on key topics or by selecting criteria through drop down menus, the Infobase enables users to view data from different data sources in various formats. The users can interact with data visualisations or view infographics and charts to gain insight on chronic diseases, mental health, risk and protective factors and associated determinants of health.

Statistics Canada produces statistics that help Canadians better understand their country—its population, resources, economy, society and culture.

Our Statistical Snapshots series brings together research and data from a variety of sources, providing readers with brief statistical analyses of families and family experiences in Canada. Beyond “just the facts,” Statistical Snapshots publications explore modern families and the social, economic, cultural and environmental contexts that shape family life in a simple and visually engaging format.

An interactive web tool providing health system decision-makers and Canadians with current results for indicators they need. The tool features key indicators for acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities and health regions. These interactive tools will help you learn more about your health system and the health of Canadians.

CDC Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) is a public resource. This application makes many health-related data sets available to CDC staff, public health departments, researchers, and others. The data help with public health research, decision making, priority setting, program evaluation, and resource allocation.

The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program has collected, analyzed, and disseminated accurate and representative data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition through more than 400 surveys in over 90 countries.

The GHO data repository is WHO's gateway to health-related statistics for its 194 Member States. It provides access to over 1000 indicators on priority health topics including mortality and burden of diseases, the Millennium Development Goals (child nutrition, child health, maternal and reproductive health, immunization, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected diseases, water and sanitation), non communicable diseases and risk factors, epidemic-prone diseases, health systems, environmental health, violence and injuries, equity among others.

The Administration for Children and Families is responsible for collecting data and conducting social service and welfare-related research. Data and research sites are listed by topics including: Adoption and Foster Care Statistics; Abuse, Neglect, Adoption & Foster Care Research; Child Maltreatment; Child Care Research; Child Support Reports; Child Welfare Outcomes; ...

The freely available Web site 'healthmap.org' and mobile app 'Outbreaks Near Me' deliver real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases for a diverse audience including libraries, local health departments, governments, and international travelers. HealthMap brings together disparate data sources, including online news aggregators, eyewitness reports, expert-curated discussions and validated official reports, to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent population health research center at UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Health Statistics offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries, and includes data found in the publication Health at a Glance. It provides data on the health status of the population including obesity (overweight, obese), suicide and life expectancy, health care financing, health care resources, social protection, health care utilization, the pharmaceutical market, long-term care resources and utilization, non-medical determinants of health, expenditure on health, and demographic and economic references, with coverage being provided for OECD and selected non-OECD countries as far back as 1960

UNICEF’s Data & Analytics (D&A) team is the global go-to for data on children. It leads the collection, validation, analysis, use and communication of the most statistically sound, internationally comparable data on the situation of children and women around the world. D&A upholds the quality, integrity and organization of these data and makes them accessible as a global public good on the data.unicef.org website.

Comprehensive, timely, and reliable health and health-related statistics are fundamental for assessing the state of a population’s health and how it is changing. Find here information on Global health statistics in various tables and visualizations.