Guides: Allied Health Sciences: Statistics & Data

Statistics & Data - Allied Health

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).
Public Health Agency of Canada: Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System (CCDSS)
The Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System (CCDSS) is a collaborative network of provincial and territorial surveillance systems. Each province/territory submits aggregate administrative data with which PHAC calculates the incidence and prevalence of chronic conditions in Canada.
OECD Health Statistics
The OECD Health Database offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health systems across OECD countries. It is an essential tool to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from international comparisons of diverse health systems.
CDC Data on Social Determinants of Health
List of tools supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resources; some tools include references to data sources outside of the CDC.
WHO Global Health Observatory
The Global Heath Observatory (GHO) is 'WHO's gateway to health-related statistics from around the world.'

Statistics Canada: Data
This website provides access to a variety of Canadian health statistics, including the 2018 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS).
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.
Public Health Ontario: Open Data
Indexes a wide variety of quantitative resources that look at the present and future state of health in Ontario.

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.
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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.