Health Indicators
Over 80 indicators measure the health of the Canadian population and the effectiveness of the health care system. Designed to provide comparable information at the health region and provincial/territorial levels, these data are produced from a wide range of the most recently available sources.
This Internet publication is produced by Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information.
Related information
Source (Surveys and statistical programs)
- National Population Health Survey: Household Component, Longitudinal
- Vital Statistics - Birth Database
- Vital Statistics - Death Database
- National Population Health Survey: Household Component, Cross-sectional
- National Population Health Survey: North Component
- Canadian Cancer Registry
- Canadian Community Health Survey - Annual Component
- Annual Demographic Estimates: Canada, Provinces and Territories
Related products
Data
- Tables: Birth-related indicators (low and high birth weight, small and large for gestational age, pre-term births), by sex, five-year period, Canada and Inuit regions
- Tables: Births
- Tables: Canadian Community Health Survey Optional Content and Related Tables
- Tables: Canadian Community Health Survey Profiles
- Tables: Cancer Incidence in Canada
- Tables: Cancer Statistics
- Tables: Census indicator profile, based on the 2016 Census long-form questionnaire, Canada, provinces and territories, and health regions (2017 boundaries)
- Tables: Census indicator profile, based on the 2016 Census short-form questionnaire, Canada, provinces and territories, and health regions (2017 boundaries)
- Profiles of a community or region: Community Profiles
- Tables: Comparable Health Indicators - Canada, Provinces and Territories
- Tables: Contribution of age specific death rates to changes (over 1, 5, 10 years) in life expectancy at birth, by sex
- Tables: Contribution of drug poisoning deaths to changes (over 1 and 5 years) in life expectancy at birth, by sex
- Tables: Contribution of potentially avoidable causes of death to changes (over 1 and 5 years) in life expectancy at birth, by sex
- Tables: Contribution of selected causes of death to changes (over 1, 5, 10 years) in life expectancy at birth, by sex
- Tables: Contribution of selected causes of death to differences in life expectancy at birth between males and females
- Tables: Deaths
- Tables: Dependency ratio (2011 Census and administrative data), by age group for July 1st, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions (2017 boundaries) and peer groups, inactive
- Tables: Estimates of population (2011 Census and administrative data), by age group and sex for July 1st, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions (2017 boundaries) and peer groups, inactive
- Tables: Five-year mortality by educational attainment and sex
- Tables: Five-year mortality, by income quintile and sex
- Tables: Health of Canadians
- Tables: Infant and perinatal mortality, by sex, five-year period, Canada and Inuit regions
- Tables: Leading Causes of Death in Canada
- Tables: Life expectancy, at birth and at age 65, by sex, five-year average, Canada and Inuit regions
- Tables: Life expectancy, at birth and at age 65, by sex, three-year average, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions and peer groups
- Tables: Mortality, Summary List of Causes
- Tables: Pregnancy Outcomes
- Tables: Premature and potentially avoidable mortality, three-year period, Canada, provinces, territories, health regions (2018 boundaries) and peer groups
Analysis
- Journals and periodicals: Access to Health Care Services in Canada
- Stats in brief: Health Indicators July 2020
- Journals and periodicals: Health Reports
- Journals and periodicals: Health Reports - Supplement
- Journals and periodicals: The Changing Face of Heart Disease and Stroke in Canada 2000
Reference
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: Guide to Health Statistics
- Geographic files and documentation: Health Regions: Boundaries and Correspondence with Census Geography
Subjects and keywords
Subjects
Keywords
- AIDS
- AIDS deaths
- Access to health care
- Age specific mortality rates
- Alcohol consumption
- Alcoholic beverages
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Bed occupancy rate
- Body mass index
- Breast cancer
- Breast examinations
- Breast feeding
- Cancer
- Chronic health problems
- Colorectal cancer
- Days of care
- Deaths
- Depression
- Determinants of health
- Diabetes
- Emotional well-being
- Expenditures
- Food consumption
- HIV
- Health behaviours
- Health indicators
- Health professionals
- Health risk factors
- Health surveys
- Health system
- High blood pressure
- Hip replacement
- Hospital admissions
- Hospital morbidity
- Hospital separations
- Hospital utilization
- Housing conditions
- Hysterectomy
- Immigrants
- Immunization
- Indigenous peoples
- Infant mortality
- Influenza
- Job satisfaction
- Knee replacement
- Labour force
- Life expectancy
- Lifestyle
- Live births
- Lone-parent families
- Low birth weight
- Low income cutoffs
- Mammography
- Medical check-ups
- Medical education
- Mortality
- Mortality rates
- Obesity
- Obstetrics
- Pain and discomfort
- Pap smears
- Pediatrics
- Perinatal mortality
- Physical activity
- Population distribution
- Respiratory diseases
- Seniors
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Stillbirths
- Stress
- Suicide
- Surgery
- Teenage pregnancies
- Tobacco use
- Working conditions