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May 2009
The September 2000 First Ministers Communiqué on Health gave direction to Health Ministers to collaborate on the development of a comprehensive framework using jointly agreed upon comparable indicator reporting on health status, health outcomes and quality of service. In September 2002, all 14 jurisdictions including the federal government, released their reports on 67 comparable indicators.
The February 2003 First Ministers Accord on Health Care Renewal (The Accord), directed Health Ministers to further develop indicators to supplement the work on comparable indicator reporting. The Accord focused indicator development and reporting activities on several specific program and service areas for the health system, such as primary health care and homecare services, identifying the development of these services as important strategies for health system reform and sustainability. Each jurisdiction released a report on November 30, 2004.
Accompanying the biennial release of Health Canada's Healthy Canadians report, Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information develop a common website that hosts the comparable indicators data. The data associated with the 2008 report are now available for all jurisdictions.
Healthy Canadians - A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators 2008
