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The premier government statistical web site, Statistics Canada, is covered by 21 sector summaries:

HEALTH STATISTICS AVAILABLE:

• Health Indicators December 2000

   

• Determinants
  • Fertility rate
    By age group
  • Recent measures taken to improve health by sex
    Lose weight, quit smoking, exercise, improve eating habits, manage stress, drink less alcohol, control blood pressure, reduce drug use
  • High Blood Pressure
    By age and gender
  • Smokers
    By sex and age group
  • Alcohol consumption, by sex, age group and level of education

   

  FREE PUBLICATIONS

   

  • Health Reports: How Health Are Canadians? 

     

  • Eating habits of Canadians
    Insights On... (Summer 1999) 

     

  • Statistical Report on the health of Canadians 
    This report provides a comprehensive and detailed statistical overview of the health status of Canadians and the major determinants of that status

     

  • Report on smoking prevalence in Canada, 1985-1999 

   

• Resources / Use
  • Graduates from health related post secondary programs
  • Health expenditures
    By type
  • Average payment per medical care service
    By category of service
  • Average length of stay in hospital
    By selected diagnostic group, Canada and the provinces
  • Approved beds per 1,000 population
    By type of care, Canada, the provinces and territories
  • Employment, health and social services
    By industry group
  • Average weekly earnings (including overtime), health and social services
    By industry group
  • Health and social services revenue and expenditure, Canada
    By industry group
  • Community college diplomas in career programs Covers Health Sciences
  • University degrees granted by field of study, by sex
    Covers Health professions and occupations

   

  FREE PUBLICATIONS

   

  • Health Reports: How Health Are Canadians? 

     

  • Health Indicators 
    These indicators are organized into four categories: health status (including health conditions, mortality rates, measures of well-being); non-medical determinants of health (socio-economic characteristics and health behaviour); health system performance (measures of accessibility, appropriateness, effectiveness of health care services); and, community and health system characteristics (contextual information).

     

  • Health Care in Canada 
    This report is divided into three parts. Part A, The changing face of Canada's health care system, Part B, The continuum of care, Part C, Future directions

     

  • Estimates of gross expenditures on research and development in the health field in Canada 

  
   

• Status
  • Suicides, and suicide rate, by sex, by age group
  • Selected notifiable diseases by sex
    • AIDS
    • Gonococcal infections
    • Gonococcal ophthalmia
    • Syphilis
    • Campylo bacteriosis
    • Chicken pox
    • Giardiasis
    • Hepatitis A
    • Hepatitis B
    • Measles
    • Pertussis
    • Rubella
    • Salmonella
    • Tuberculosis
  • Selected notifiable diseases by sex
  • Number of weeks depressed in past 52 weeks, by age and sex
  • Infant mortality rates
  • Lifetime probability of developing and dying from cancer
  • Life expectancy at birth
    By sex, Canada, provinces
  • Age-standardized mortality rates by selected causes, by sex
    • Malignant neoplasms
      • Intestine, except rectum
      • Lung  
      • Breast
      • All other malignant neoplasms
    • Diabetes
    • Diseases of the heart
      • Ischaemic heart diseases
      • All other heart diseases
    • Cerebrovascular diseases
    • Atheroclerosis
    • Respiratory diseases
      • Pneumonia and influenza
      • Bronchitis, emphysema and asthma
      • All other respiratory diseases
    • Chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis
    • Congenital anomalies
    • Perinatal mortality excluding stillbirths
    • Injuries and poisonings

        

      • Motor vehicle accidents
      • Suicide
      • Homicide
      • Other injuries and poisonings
  • Hospital Separations
    by age and type of disease
  • Selected leading causes of death by sex
    by province
  • Therapeutic abortions by province and territory of report
    by province
  • Therapeutic abortions by area of residence of patient
    by province
  • Therapeutic abortions per 100 live births to Canadian residents
    by province
  • Therapeutic abortions by age group
    by province

   

  FREE PUBLICATIONS

   

  • Health Reports: How Health Are Canadians? 

     

  • The changing face of heart disease and stroke in Canada 2000  

     

  • Mortality - Summary List of Causes, 1997  
    The shelf tables show data on the number of deaths and rates by age and sex for Canada and the provinces. Also included are a summary of vital statistics and standardized death rates. Infant mortality, perinatal mortality, etc., by detailed causes are presented in the report.

   

• Household Expenditures
  • Average household expenditures, Canada, provinces and territories
  • Average household expenditures, selected metropolitan areas

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