Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System
Public Health Agency of Canada
A collaborative network of provincial and territorial surveillance systems that tracks chronic diseases by linking health insurance registration files, physician billing claims and hospital discharge abstracts. It provides national estimates of chronic disease prevalence, incidence and outcomes from administrative records, published as open data tables by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Category
Research database
Access
Open access
Region
Canada — Canada
Coverage
All Canadian provinces and territories
Size
Near-universal population coverage (97% of Canadian residents)
Data types
chronic disease prevalence, incidence data, health outcomes, population health metrics