Guides: Health Sciences: Statistics & Data

Statistics & Data - General

Statistics Canada: Data
Tables, community and regional profiles, maps, microdata, and data visualizations.
CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information
CIHI is a Canadian not-for-profit organization that provides statistics and analysis about health and the health care system.
OPHID: Ontario Population Health Index of Databases
Indexes a wide variety of quantitative resources (surveys) that look at the present and future state of health in Ontario. Note: contact the individual data provider for access to the survey content.

Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) This link opens in a new window
The DLI website lists survey data that is available to Ontario Tech students from Statistics Canada. Survey descriptions, questionnaires and user guides are available to all users. Actual data must be downloaded by the institutions DLI contact (currently Kaelan Caspary). Use of data is restricted to Ontario Tech students, faculty and staff for academic purposes only. Contact Kaelan.Caspary@ontariotechu.ca for further information.
Licence Summary:
odesi This link opens in a new window
odesi is a data repository, that includes Statistics Canada datasets and polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool. odesi provides researchers the ability to search for survey questions (variables) across thousands of datasets. Microdata and aggregate data are available, in a range of formats.

Health Inequalities Data Tool
The Health Inequalities Data Tool is a searchable database that includes over 70 health indicators of health outcomes (mortality and life expectancy, morbidity, mental illness and suicide, self-assessed physical and mental health, and disease/health conditions).
IHME Data Visualizations
Free and easily accessible data provided in innovative ways to visualize complex health issues in North America and abroad.
HealthMap
HealthMap utilizes online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats and real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases.