Analytical reports

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This section provides links to analysis relevant to the latest indicator data available.

Annual Health Indicators print publication

This year, the in-focus topic for the report Health Indicators 2012 is Avoidable Mortality. This report introduces three new indicators that examine the subset of deaths that could have potentially been avoided through public health practices, prevention and policies, and the provision of timely and effective health care.

Previous issues of Health Indicators reports are available on the CIHI web site.

Health fact sheets (82-625-X)

• Access to a regular medical doctor, 2011
• Arthritis, 2011
• Asthma, 2011
• Diabetes, 2011
• Exposure to second-hand smoke at home, 2011
• Fruit and vegetable consumption, 2011
• Heavy drinking, 2011
• High blood pressure, 2011
• Overweight and obese adults (self-reported), 2011
• Perceived health, 2011
• Perceived life stress, 2011
• Physical activity during leisure time, 2011
• Smoking, 2011

Health at a Glance (82-624-X)

Each issue of Health at a Glance consists of a short non-technical article on topics that feature statistics from health-related surveys and administrative data.

Health Indicators of Inuit Nunangat within the Canadian Context

This report (English and Inuktitut only), produced by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, uses data from the Statistics Canada Vital Statistics Birth and Death databases to provide insight into the health of Inuit.

Healthy People, Healthy Places (82-229-X)

This report celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Health Indicators project. It examines the health of Canadians by focusing on demography, health status, health behaviours, and the environment.

The Health Indicators Project: Report from the Third Consensus Conference on Health Indicators (82-230-X)

Three National Consensus Conferences on Health Indicators were convened in order to achieve an agreement on the measures used by CIHI and Statistics Canada reflecting the health of Canadians, factors that affect our health and the performance of the health care system.

• The Health Indicators Project: Report from the Third Consensus Conference on Health Indicators Download PDF
• The Health Indicators Project: The Next Five Years Download PDF
• National Consensus Conference on Population Health Indicators Final Report Download PDF

Making Sense of Health Rankings (82-582-X)

The methodological paper is designed to help readers understand and assess reports that rank the health status or health system performance of a country, province or jurisdiction.

It outlines the components and processes that underlie health rankings, explores why such rankings can be difficult to interpret and includes a plain-language checklist to use as a critical evaluative resource when reading health-ranking reports.

Health Reports (82-003-X)

Statistics Canada's monthly journal of population health and health services research.