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  • 1. Who is reaching out for help? Examining access to mental health and substance use health supports among girls and young women in Canada
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202500500001
    Description: Girls and young women experience poorer mental health than boys and young men, although the reverse is true for substance use disorders. This study examines whether predisposing characteristics such as immigrant status, population group, rural or urban status, sexual orientation, and neighbourhood income level are correlated with the prevalence of receiving mental health services and substance use disorders, access to formal health supports, and satisfaction with these supports among girls and young women in Canada.
    Release date: 2025-05-21
  • 2. Health and care-receiving profiles and unmet home care needs among community-dwelling Canadians aged 85 years and older
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202500500002
    Description: The population aged 85 and older is one of the fastest-growing age groups. Previous studies have identified several factors associated with unmet home care needs, including living arrangements, education, income, access to a regular medical doctor, chronic conditions, health status, and functional limitations. However, less is known about the extent to which unmet home care needs vary across the health and care-receiving profiles of the oldest-old Canadians. This study aims to enhance the understanding of the heterogeneity among the community-dwelling population aged 85 years and older in Canada.
    Release date: 2025-05-21
  • 3. Unmet health care needs by sex and age group
    Table: 13-10-0836-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number and percentage of persons aged 15 years and over with unmet health care needs by sex (Canada and provinces) and age group (Canada only).
    Release date: 2025-05-01
  • 4. Amount billed to insured patients for select insured services at medical and diagnostic laboratories, by provincial insurance coverage
    Table: 13-10-0953-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Total amount billed directly to patients with a referral from a physician or nurse practitioner for medically necessary services, by patient provincial insurance coverage.
    Release date: 2025-04-11
  • 5. Number of tests for select diagnostic services at medical and diagnostic laboratories, by type of billing and provincial insurance coverage
    Table: 13-10-0954-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number of services delivered for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) scans, and ultrasounds by type of billing and patient provincial insurance coverage.
    Release date: 2025-04-11
  • 6. Changes in the health of Canadians and access to health care
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025023
    Description: This infographic highlights trends from the Health of Canadians annual report. It is based on data from the 2021 to 2023 Canadian Community Health Survey and the 2021 and 2022 Canadian Income Survey and includes key statistics on the health of Canadians, such as perceived health, and access to health care.
    Release date: 2025-03-05
  • 7. Cost-related avoidance of oral health services
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500100003
    Description: Using data from the Canadian Oral Health Survey, this study describes the characteristics of individuals who avoided visiting an oral health professional or who avoided recommended dental treatment because of cost. It explores how cost-related avoidance in the previous 12 months varies across age, gender and equity-seeking groups. The article also provides a detailed overview of the role of income and dental insurance in cost-related avoidance of oral health services.
    Release date: 2025-02-12
  • 8. Study: Cost-related avoidance of oral health services
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202504338870
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-02-12
  • 9. Selected indicators of oral health in Canada
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024028
    Description: This dashboard allows users to examine the latest data for selected oral health indicators in Canada: visits to an oral health professional, dental insurance coverage, oral health characteristics (self-reported), oral health characteristics (measured), oral health care risk factors.
    Release date: 2025-01-09
  • 10. Updated breast cancer costs for women by disease stage and phase of care using population-based databases
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202401100001
    Description: Managing breast cancer involves a range of health care settings and has considerable implications on health care resources. While studies have looked at breast cancer costs in Canada by subtype and stage, there is a gap in understanding breast cancer costs related to phase of care and disease stage. This study assessed health care system costs and resource utilization for adult women with breast cancer in Ontario, Canada. The goal was to update costs by stage, age, and phase of care from a health care system perspective.
    Release date: 2024-11-20
Data (81)

Data (81) (0 to 10 of 81 results)

  • 1. Unmet health care needs by sex and age group
    Table: 13-10-0836-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number and percentage of persons aged 15 years and over with unmet health care needs by sex (Canada and provinces) and age group (Canada only).
    Release date: 2025-05-01
  • 2. Amount billed to insured patients for select insured services at medical and diagnostic laboratories, by provincial insurance coverage
    Table: 13-10-0953-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Total amount billed directly to patients with a referral from a physician or nurse practitioner for medically necessary services, by patient provincial insurance coverage.
    Release date: 2025-04-11
  • 3. Number of tests for select diagnostic services at medical and diagnostic laboratories, by type of billing and provincial insurance coverage
    Table: 13-10-0954-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Number of services delivered for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT) scans, and ultrasounds by type of billing and patient provincial insurance coverage.
    Release date: 2025-04-11
  • 4. Selected indicators of oral health in Canada
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024028
    Description: This dashboard allows users to examine the latest data for selected oral health indicators in Canada: visits to an oral health professional, dental insurance coverage, oral health characteristics (self-reported), oral health characteristics (measured), oral health care risk factors.
    Release date: 2025-01-09
  • 5. Selected indicators of dental insurance coverage, by age group and gender
    Table: 13-10-0920-01
    Geography: Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: This table allows users to explore the latest data related to dental insurance coverage in Canada.
    Release date: 2024-10-23
  • 6. Mental Health and Access to Care Survey (MHACS): Public Use Microdata File
    Public use microdata: 82M0021X
    Description: The Public Use Microdata File (PUMF) for the Mental Health and Access to Care Survey (MHACS) provides information about the mental health status of Canadians, as well as their access to and need for services and supports, whether formal or informal. This product includes many safeguards to prevent the identification of any one person or household.

    The 2022 MHACS is a repeat of the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey on Mental Health (CCHS-Mental Health). In contrast to the 2002 and 2012 iterations of the CCHS-Mental Health, which were administered in-person, the 2022 MHACS was administered by computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Release date: 2024-06-26
  • 7. Dental insurance coverage and dental visits, by age group and gender
    Table: 13-10-0877-01
    Geography: Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number and percentage of Canadians aged 12 and older, by age group and gender, who had a visit to a dental professional in the past year, as well as their coverage by dental insurance.
    Release date: 2024-02-07
  • 8. Dental insurance coverage and dental visits, by adjusted family net income quintile
    Table: 13-10-0878-01
    Geography: Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number and percentage of Canadians aged 12 and older, by adjusted family net income quintile, who had a visit to a dental professional in the past year, as well as their coverage by dental insurance.
    Release date: 2024-02-07
  • 9. Access to and use of health care services by Aboriginal identity, age group and sex
    Table: 41-10-0040-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description:

    Access to and use of health care services by Aboriginal identity, age group and sex, population aged 15 years and over, Canada, provinces and territories.

    Release date: 2020-12-09
  • 10. Crowdsourcing: Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians' Experiences of Discrimination Public Use Microdata File
    Public use microdata: 45-25-0008
    Description:

    This public use microdata file includes crowdsource questionnaire information on how COVID-19 has impacted Canadians' experiences of discrimination, sense of belonging, trust in institutions and access to health care services. This product is provided using Statistics Canada's electronic file transfer service.

    Release date: 2020-10-08
Analysis (70)

Analysis (70) (0 to 10 of 70 results)

  • 1. Who is reaching out for help? Examining access to mental health and substance use health supports among girls and young women in Canada
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202500500001
    Description: Girls and young women experience poorer mental health than boys and young men, although the reverse is true for substance use disorders. This study examines whether predisposing characteristics such as immigrant status, population group, rural or urban status, sexual orientation, and neighbourhood income level are correlated with the prevalence of receiving mental health services and substance use disorders, access to formal health supports, and satisfaction with these supports among girls and young women in Canada.
    Release date: 2025-05-21
  • 2. Health and care-receiving profiles and unmet home care needs among community-dwelling Canadians aged 85 years and older
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202500500002
    Description: The population aged 85 and older is one of the fastest-growing age groups. Previous studies have identified several factors associated with unmet home care needs, including living arrangements, education, income, access to a regular medical doctor, chronic conditions, health status, and functional limitations. However, less is known about the extent to which unmet home care needs vary across the health and care-receiving profiles of the oldest-old Canadians. This study aims to enhance the understanding of the heterogeneity among the community-dwelling population aged 85 years and older in Canada.
    Release date: 2025-05-21
  • 3. Changes in the health of Canadians and access to health care
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2025023
    Description: This infographic highlights trends from the Health of Canadians annual report. It is based on data from the 2021 to 2023 Canadian Community Health Survey and the 2021 and 2022 Canadian Income Survey and includes key statistics on the health of Canadians, such as perceived health, and access to health care.
    Release date: 2025-03-05
  • 4. Cost-related avoidance of oral health services
    Articles and reports: 75-006-X202500100003
    Description: Using data from the Canadian Oral Health Survey, this study describes the characteristics of individuals who avoided visiting an oral health professional or who avoided recommended dental treatment because of cost. It explores how cost-related avoidance in the previous 12 months varies across age, gender and equity-seeking groups. The article also provides a detailed overview of the role of income and dental insurance in cost-related avoidance of oral health services.
    Release date: 2025-02-12
  • 5. Study: Cost-related avoidance of oral health services
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202504338870
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-02-12
  • 6. Updated breast cancer costs for women by disease stage and phase of care using population-based databases
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202401100001
    Description: Managing breast cancer involves a range of health care settings and has considerable implications on health care resources. While studies have looked at breast cancer costs in Canada by subtype and stage, there is a gap in understanding breast cancer costs related to phase of care and disease stage. This study assessed health care system costs and resource utilization for adult women with breast cancer in Ontario, Canada. The goal was to update costs by stage, age, and phase of care from a health care system perspective.
    Release date: 2024-11-20
  • 7. Mental health and access to support among 2SLGBTQ+ youth
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202401100002
    Description: Compared with their cisgender heterosexual peers, youth who are Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer and those who use other terms related to gender or sexual diversity (2SLGBTQ+) are at elevated risk for mental health difficulties and suicidality. The social experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ youth, including the impact of minority stress, access to social support, and experiences of negative social interactions, may contribute to this disparity. The purpose of this study is to describe the mental health and service use of 2SLGBTQ+ youth compared with those of their cisgender heterosexual peers and (2) examine the role of young people’s social support and negative social interactions in explaining mental health inequities between 2SLGBTQ+ youth and their peers.
    Release date: 2024-11-20
  • 8. Factors associated with the use of oral health care services among seniors in Canada
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202400600002
    Description: Optimal oral health is an essential element of healthy aging. Oral health problems such as tooth loss, periodontal disease, and dry mouth accumulate throughout adult life and worsen with increasing age. Using data from the 2019/2020 Canadian Health Survey on Seniors, this study explores the link between dental insurance, income, and oral health care access among seniors (aged 65 and over) in Canada. It contributes to the understanding of oral health care among seniors before the implementation of the Canadian Dental Care Plan.
    Release date: 2024-06-19
  • 9. Assessing the role of dental insurance in oral health care disparities in Canadian adults
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202400400001
    Description: Oral health is a crucial component of overall health, influencing both physical and mental well-being. Yet, despite the important role that access to and use of oral health care services play in maintaining optimal oral health, substantial disparities remain in access to oral health care services across population groups in Canada. Using data from the 2022 Canadian Community Health Survey, this study examines the association of dental insurance with oral health care access and use in Canada while accounting for income and sociodemographic factors. It contributes to a baseline of oral health care disparities before the implementation of the Canadian Dental Care Plan.
    Release date: 2024-04-17
  • 10. Factors associated with the use of oral health care services among Canadian children and youth
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202400400002
    Description: Children’s oral health can affect functional capacities, psychological well-being, and social integration. Additionally, health behaviours established in childhood extend into adulthood and can influence oral health outcomes later in life. Using data from the 2019 Canadian Health Survey on Children and Youth, this study investigates the association between dental insurance, income, and dental care access for Canadian children and youth aged 1 to 17 years. It contributes to a baseline understanding of oral health care use before the implementation of the Canadian Dental Care Plan.
    Release date: 2024-04-17
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Reference (4) ((4 results))

  • 1. Health Services Access Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5002
    Description: The objective of the survey was to provide information on the experiences of respondents in using some selected health care services. The survey focused on two main topics: waiting for specialized services for a new illness or condition and access to basic health care.
  • 2. Barriers to Care for People with Chronic Health Conditions
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5189
    Description: The objectives of the BCPCHC Survey are: - To provide more information on how people manage their chronic conditions; - To identify barriers to care for those living with chronic conditions including economic and travel related barriers; - To identify barriers to self-management of chronic conditions.
  • 3. Survey on Health Care Access and Experiences - Primary and Specialist Care (SHCAE-PSC)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5391
    Description: This survey covers topics such as the use of and access to primary health care and specialist care, care coordination, barriers to care, prescription medications, and out-of-pocket expenses. The results may be used by Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and provincial ministries of health to help inform the delivery of health care services and develop and improve programs and policies to better serve all Canadians.
  • 4. Survey Series on First Nations People, Métis and Inuit
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5410
    Description: The Survey Series on First Nations People, Métis, and Inuit is a panel of short surveys on First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit who had previously agreed to participate in follow up surveys.
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