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Environmental Public Health / Health Inspector: Statistics/Data

BCIT Statistic Databases

Data

Finding and Using Health Statistics - A tutorial offered by the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR). This course describes the range of available health statistics, identifies their sources and helps you understand how to use information about their structure as you search.

 

Google Dataset Search - Search across thousands of data repositories across the Web

Health Infobase -  Data Tools -  Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System

Statista - Healthcare expenditure in Canada – statistics & facts

Statista - Total health expenditure per capita in Canada from 1975 to 2023

Canadian Institute for Health Information - Explore your health system

Canadian Institute for Health Information - National health expenditure trends

City of Vancouver - Healthy City Dashboard (provides social and economic indicators about key topics related to the city, and the services that the City provides).

Public Health Agency of Canada - How healthy are people in Canada?

World Bank Group - Current health expenditure (% of GDP) - Canada

NationMaster - Central data source that generates maps and graphical comparisons of nations from CIA World Factbook, UN and OECD.

OECD - Health Spending Indicators (interactive) - 2019 was the last time Canada was listed here. 

WHO Data and Statistics -- Data and statistic resources of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Data by topic

Definitions

Statistics – the practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities

Data – raw numbers collected together for reference or analysis

Vital Statistics – Statistics concerning the important events in human life, i.e. birth, death, marriage, etc. 

Correlation – mutual relationship or connection between two or more things

Rate – expresses the frequency  with which an event occurs in a defined population in a specified period of time

Incidence  the proportion of new cases of the target disorder in the population at risk during a specified time interval

Prevalence – the proportion of the total population who have a particular health-related condition. 

Source: VCU Libraries