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Health indicators
Vol. 2001, no. 3
Health indicators is a web-based data product produced by Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information. It presents a set of indicators that measure the health of the Canadian population and the health care system. Based on standard definitions and methods, these indicators provide comparable information at the Canada, provincial/territorial and health region level.
The indicators are organized into four categories: health status (including health conditions, mortality rates and measures of well-being); non-medical determinants of health (socio-economic characteristics and health behaviours); health system performance (measures of accessibility, appropriateness and effectiveness of health care services); and community and health system characteristics (contextual information).
This latest edition of Health indicators contains new highlights, maps and tables for a number of health indicators-for example, new mortality data on potential years of life lost and deaths due to medically treatable diseases-as well as all the previous editions' highlights and tables. These data, which are organized by sex, age and various levels of geography, are produced from various sources available to Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information-such as the National Population Health Survey, Vital Statistics, Hospital Morbidity Database and the Discharge Abstract Database.
For the first time ever, Health indicators offers links between the Statistics Canada website and the Canadian Institute for Health Information website-so from now on users will have all sources of health indicators data gathered together in a single, free, online publication.
The Vol. 2001, no. 3 edition of Health indicators (82-221-XIE, free) is now available on Statistics Canada's website (). For more information, contact Jason Gilmore (613-951-7118; jason.gilmore@statcan.gc.ca), Statistics Canada, or Anick Losier (613-241-7860), Canadian Institute for Health Information.
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