In 1991, the National Task Force on Health Information cited a number of issues and problems with the health information system. To respond to these issues, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Statistics Canada and Health Canada joined forces to create a Health Information Roadmap. From this mandate, the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) was conceived. The CCHS is a cross-sectional survey that collects information related to health status, health care utilization and health determinants for the Canadian population. The survey is offered in both official languages. It relies upon a large sample of respondents and is designed to provide reliable estimates at the health region level every 2 years. The CCHS has the following objectives: Support health surveillance programs by providing health data at the national, provincial and intra-provincial levels Provide a single data source for health research on small populations and rare characteristics Timely release of information easily accessible to a diverse community of users Create a flexible survey instrument that includes a rapid response option to address emerging issues related to the health of the population The CCHS produces an annual microdata file and a file combining two years of data. The CCHS collection years with both consistent design and consistent population representation can also be combined by users to examine populations or rare characteristics. The primary use of the CCHS data is for health surveillance and population health research. Federal and provincial departments of health and human resources, social service agencies, and other types of government agencies use the information collected from respondents to monitor, plan, implement and evaluate programs to improve the health of Canadians. Researchers from various fields use the information to conduct research to improve health. Non-profit health organizations and the media use the CCHS results to raise awareness about health, an issue of concern to all Canadians.

During the fiscal year of 2020, a significant portion of the complaints related to healthcare received by the Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) in Canada were regarding access to care, and medication. The third most common type of complaint was about healthcare decisions. According to the source, only a small proportion of these complaints had not been resolved.

This is the fourth COVID-19 crowdsource survey that collected information on Canadian's trust in governments, public health authorities, businessses and others during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives: Children’s mental health and wellbeing declined during the first COVID-19 lockdown (Spring 2020), particularly among those from disadvantaged settings. We compared mental health and wellbeing of school-aged children observed pre-pandemic in 2018 and after the first lockdown was lifted and schools reopened in Fall 2020.Methods: In 2018, we surveyed 476 grade 4–6 students (9–12 years old) from 11 schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Northern Canada that participate in a school-based health promotion program targeting healthy lifestyle behaviours and mental wellbeing. In November-December 2020, we surveyed 467 grade 4–6 students in the same schools. The 12 questions in the mental health and wellbeing domain were grouped based on correlation and examined using multivariable logistic regression.Results: There were no notable changes pre-pandemic vs. post-lockdown in responses to each of the 12 questions or any of the sub-groupings.Conclusion: Supporting schools to implement health promotion programs may help mitigate the impact of the pandemic on children’s mental health and wellbeing. The findings align with recent calls for schools to remain open as long as possible during the pandemic response.

Context & Content

CAMH/Delvinia released two surveys and received responses from over 1000 Canadians for both. The first survey was for May 8-12, 2020 and the second survey was for May 29-Jun 1, 2020. The aim of these surveys was to offer insight into the changing nature of Canadians' mental health and substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic. I did not collect this survey data - Delvinia is providing free access to the survey questions and results via its Methodify platform (delvinia.com/camh-coronavirus-mental-health/). I am not affiliated with CAMH or Delvinia in any way.

For both datasets (survey1_results.csv, survey2_results.csv), the first row contains the survey questions (1 question per column). Each succeeding row respresents the responses from one Canadian adult (18 years or older) that completed the survey.

Inspiration

I brought this dataset to the Kaggle community to help answer questions related to mental health impact and support services brought forward by the UNCOVER COVID-19 Challenge: Can we predict changes in demand for mental health services and how can we ensure access? Are there signs of shifts in mental health challenges across demographies, whether improvements or declines, as a result of COVID-19 and the various measures implemented to contain the pandemic?

In the final week of March 2020, 2.8 million Canadians were away from their usual places of work and engaging in remote and/or telework to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 (Statistics Canada, 2020). The Government of Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) were no exception, with most members from the regular force (Reg F), the primary reserve force (P Res), and the DND public service (DND PS) working from home. The COVID-19 Defence Team Survey was administered from April 29th, 2020, and May 22nd, 2020, to gain insight into work, health, and family-related challenges since the onset of the pandemic and change in work arrangements. Responses from five open-ended questions were qualitatively analyzed to determine general themes of concern regarding work, personal, and family related challenges, stress-management and coping strategies, and recommendations for improving the work situation and personal well-being. Given the different roles and conditions of employment, responses of the different groups or “components” of respondents (Reg F, P Res, DND PS) were compared to identify common and unique challenges to inform targeted organizational responses. A total of 26,207 members (Reg F = 13,668, 52.2%; P Res = 5,052, 19.3%; DND PS = 7,487, 28.6%) responded to the survey's five open-ended questions, which yielded a total of 75,000 open-ended responses. When asked about work-related challenges, respondents' most common challenges included dissatisfaction with technology/software, work arrangements, ergonomics, work-life balance, communication within the organization, and the uncertainties regarding career development. In terms of personal and/or family-related challenges, the most common challenges included social isolation, the impact of the pandemic on mental health, school closures and homeschooling, caring for vulnerable family members, and childcare concerns. The most common stress-management and coping strategies included exercise, spending time outdoors, communicating or spending time with family members, household chores/projects, mind-body wellness exercises, and playing games. The most common recommendations made by respondents to improve their work- or personal-related situations included improving technological capabilities, streamlining communication, providing hardware and software necessary to ensure comfortable ergonomics, the provision of flexibility in terms of telework schedules, return-to-work decisions, and the expansion of benefits and access to childcare services. In terms of differences among the components, DND PS personnel were most likely to report dissatisfaction with technological changes and ergonomics, and to recommend improving these technological limitations to maximize productivity. Reg F members, on the other hand, were most likely to recommend increased support and access to childcare, and both Reg F and P Res members were more likely to mention that increased benefits and entitlements in response to the COVID-19 pandemic would be ameliorative. The results of this study highlight several important facts about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on personnel working in large, diverse organizations. For example, advancements in organizational technological capabilities were highlighted herein, and these are likely to grow to maintain productivity should remote work come to be used more extensively in the long-term. This study also highlighted the importance of flexibility and accommodation in relation to individual needs – a trend that was already underway but has taken on greater relevance and urgency in light of the pandemic. This is clearly essential to the organization's role in supporting the well-being of personnel and their families. Clear and streamlined communication regarding organizational changes and support services is also essential to minimize uncertainty and to provide useful supports for coping with this and other stressful situations.

This is the backgrounder for the mental health and distress centres. Supporting the mental health and well-being of Canadians, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, is a priority for the Government of Canada. A $50 million investment to increase the capacity of distress centres across the country, announced in the 2020 Fall Economic Statement, will help connect Canadians to the appropriate supports and resources. This funding will provide distress centres across Canada with the support they need to meet increased demand for crisis services.

The Economic and Fiscal Snapshot 2020 lays out the steps Canada is taking to stabilize the economy and protect the health and economic well-being of Canadians and businesses across the country during the public health and economic crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The data collection series Crowdsourcing: Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians is designed to assess the quality and viability of a more timely collection model using willing participants and web-only collection. The Crowdsourcing: Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians - Your Mental Health is the second iteration in the continuing series of crowdsourcing cycles. The overall goal of the crowdsourcing initiative is to invite all members of the Canadian population to participate in a data collection exercise on a voluntary basis. The main topic of this second crowdsourcing was to determine how Canadians are reacting to the COVID-19 crisis and the impact it has had on their mental health. In the context of this product, the term crowdsourcing refers to the process of collecting information via an online questionnaire.

At the beginning of 2020 national school food programs reached more children than any time in history making school food programs the most extensive form of social safety nets in the world. Looking to Canada, school food programs across the country serve more than 1 million students and provide multifaceted benefits including access to healthy fresh food choices, improving learning capacities, promoting nutritional awareness, assisting food-insecure households, and promoting local food procurement. However, since the beginning of the SARS-Cov 2 (COVID-19) pandemic these programs have faced operational challenges resulting in many rolling back their operations while food insecurity rates in Canada have increased dramatically. Framed as a Canadian case study analysis, this paper considers the discursive effects of provincial and territorial school reopening plans and the material consequences felt by SFPs. Specifically, this paper considers the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, and maintenance of provincial and territorial school food programs within the broader conceptualization of ecological public health to consider if these programs were enabled or constrained by school reopening plans. The authors conducted a policy analysis of 57 primary and 164 supportive school reopening documents developed between April 2020 and September 2021. It was found that provincial and territorial school reopening plans primarily focused on measures to limit infectious disease transmission while food discussed in broad terms demonstrated policy makers' limited awareness of the important role of school food programs and support required to maintain them. In turn, two key observations were made: 1) government school reopening plans have overlooked the benefits of school food programs in Canada, and 2) school reopening plan designers missed opportunities to improve school food programs. This paper argues a thorough understanding of the impacts to school food programs by provincial and territorial COVID-19 public health guidelines is needed for politicians, policymakers, and school food practitioners to support the short- and long-term capacity of these programs and to ensure food insecurity and nutritional health issues in Canada continue to be on thepolitical agenda.

The Economic and Fiscal Snapshot 2020 lays out the steps Canada is taking to stabilize the economy and protect the health and economic well-being of Canadians and businesses across the country during the public health and economic crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This survey includes information on how COVID-19 has impacted the employment, household expenses, and access to health services of Canadians living with a long-term condition or disability.

This public use microdata file includes information from the first crowdsource questionnaire that collected information on Canadians' behaviours and concerns relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically regarding health, finances and employment.

The collection series collects data on the current economic and social situation, as well as on people's physical and mental health, to effectively assess the needs of communities and implement suitable support measures during and after the pandemic.

This is the fourth survey in the Canadian Perspectives Survey Series. It provides information about the source and quality of COVID-19 information that Canadians are accessing. Also covered are the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on the physical and mental health of individuals, and on their social and employment circumstances.

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Smart Healthcare Market Size 2025-2029

The smart healthcare market size is forecast to increase by USD 151.3 billion, at a CAGR of 10.1% between 2024 and 2029.

The market represents a significant and continually evolving sector, characterized by the integration of technology into healthcare delivery and management. This market encompasses various applications, including telehealth, remote patient monitoring, electronic health records, and medical equipment with advanced capabilities. One of the primary drivers fueling the growth of the market is the increasing demand for remote health monitoring. This trend is particularly relevant in today's world, where social distancing measures have become a necessity. Remote patient monitoring enables healthcare providers to assess and manage patients' health conditions from a distance, reducing the need for in-person visits and minimizing potential exposure to infectious diseases.
Despite the numerous benefits, the market faces challenges, primarily due to the high costs associated with implementing and maintaining these advanced technologies. Nevertheless, the potential for improved patient outcomes, increased efficiency, and enhanced patient satisfaction makes the investment worthwhile for many healthcare organizations. Comparing the growth rates of different applications within the market, telehealth has experienced a remarkable surge in adoption. In 2020, the number of telehealth visits in the US increased by approximately 50% compared to the previous year. This trend is expected to continue, with telehealth expected to account for 25% of all healthcare visits by 2025.
In conclusion, the market represents a dynamic and evolving sector, characterized by the integration of technology into healthcare delivery and management. The market faces challenges, such as high costs, but also offers significant benefits, including improved remote patient outcomes, increased efficiency, and enhanced patient satisfaction. Applications like telehealth are experiencing rapid growth, with telehealth visits expected to account for a quarter of all healthcare visits by 2025.

Major Market Trends & Insights

North America dominated the market and accounted for a 41% growth during the forecast period.
The market is expected to grow significantly in Europe as well over the forecast period.
By the Distribution Channel, the Offline sub-segment was valued at USD 128.50 billion in 2023
By the Solution, the Telemedicine sub-segment accounted for the largest market revenue share in 2023

Market Size & Forecast

Market Opportunities: USD 135.06 billion
Future Opportunities: USD 151.30 billion 
CAGR : 10.1%
North America: Largest market in 2023

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The market encompasses various technologies and services that enhance preventive healthcare measures, facilitate health information privacy, and promote value-based healthcare. According to recent estimates, over 30% of the global healthcare expenditure is allocated to chronic disease management. This sector is anticipated to expand by approximately 15% annually, driven by the integration of advanced technologies such as remote diagnostics tools, genomic data analysis, and patient portal systems. Moreover, the adoption of personalized treatment plans, medical device cybersecurity, and clinical decision support systems has significantly improved patient outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. For instance, the implementation of telehealth infrastructure and wearable sensor data has led to a 10% decrease in hospital readmissions and a 20% increase in patient engagement.
Additionally, the digital health ecosystem, including mobile health apps, health information technology, and connected medical devices, has streamlined clinical trial data collection and the drug development process. In contrast, the healthcare industry continues to face challenges in patient safety protocols, medical device regulation, and pharmaceutical informatics. Despite these hurdles, the market's growth is propelled by the potential for enhanced patient experiences, improved clinical decision making, and increased efficiency in healthcare delivery.

How is this Smart Healthcare Industry segmented?

The smart healthcare industry research report provides comprehensive data (region-wise segment analysis), with forecasts and estimates in 'USD billion' for the period 2025-2029, as well as historical data from 2019-2023 for the following segments.

Distribution Channel

  Offline
  Online


Solution

  Telemedicine
  mHealth
  EHR
  Smart pills
  Others


End-user

  Hospitals
  Home healthcare
  Specialty clinics
  Diagnostic centers


Geography

  North America

    US
    Canada


  Europe

    France
    Germany
    Italy
    Spain
    UK


  Middle East a

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death in the world. Emerging concepts like One Health, integrated models for COPD, and associations between oral and respiratory health are innovative ways to approach COPD treatment. This study explored contemporary evidence on the inclusion of dental providers on interprofessional healthcare teams treating patients with COPD. The first objective was to explore the current state of interprofessional care for COPD treatment, and the second objective was to explore dentistry used in interprofessional care scenarios. A rapid review was conducted from March–June 2020 using Scopus and PubMed. Upon assessing for duplication and relevance, 85 articles remained for Objective 1, and 194 for Objective 2. The literature strongly suggests that dental providers should be included on interprofessional healthcare teams to best approach COPD as a multi-morbid, chronic disease. The papers collected for review claim that educational and clinical hospital programs should implement interprofessional collaboration when treating chronic diseases. Healthcare teams can utilize the expertise of professionals outside the medical field to better understand their patients’ needs. Healthcare administration should consult a One Health framework when developing COPD treatment guidelines. These proposed recommendations are feasible and transferable to the Canadian healthcare system; however, it is anticipated that implementation will be gradual. The collaborative nature of a One Health approach exposes novel ways to develop treatment guidelines that effectively address the burden of COPD.

Methods A rapid literature review was conducted from January through June 2020. Rapid reviews are a synthesis of the most current evidence in the literature by exercising elements of systematic reviews in a timely fashion to inform and support public health decision-making. Papers describing interprofessional care approaches to treat COPD were categorised as Objective 1, and interprofessional care approaches incorporating dentistry were categorised as Objective 2. We gathered papers based on each objective by following a sequence of steps: literature search, appraisal, synthesis, and analysis. Papers collected at each step were screened by all authors and reviewed by the senior author (SLS) to assess for bias and accuracy. The articles were analysed through a One Health framework, which focuses on the importance of comprehensive, holistic care.

Literature search A literature search for each objective was conducted on PubMed and Scopus. Inclusion criteria included primary and secondary studies and practise guidelines published between January 2015-May 2020 in either Canada or the United States. Given the nature of a rapid review and the relatively novel topic of this paper, any range shorter than five years may not have produced many results. Papers were excluded if they did not mention any keywords in the title or abstract, were not written in English, were not accessible electronically, were not available in full text, were classified as grey literature, and were not final publications. Search query strings and collected articles were documented on a Microsoft Excel document and Mendeley citation management software. Duplicate papers were removed. For the remaining articles, titles and abstracts were assessed for eligibility by the lead author (NIN), which included whether the paper aligned with the aim of this study or not. The literature search step is summarized in Figure 1. Search query strings for Objectives 1 and 2 are shown in Table 1. The last search was run on the databases on May 1st, 2020.

Appraisal Appraisal checklists specific to each article type were used from the Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) developed by Oxford Centre for Triple Value Healthcare. Examples include checklists for systematic reviews, cohort studies, and qualitative studies. We used the CASP checklists to assess the quality of study methods to determine if the findings of the eligible articles are trustworthy and meaningful. Articles were examined in more detail during this step. As a result, 12 were removed for Objective 1 and 58 for Objective 2 because they did not align with inclusion or exclusion criteria, or the aim of this study.

Synthesis Relevant data from the appraised papers for each objective were extracted based on the aim(s), population/setting(s), methods, results, limitations, relevance to the aim, and applicability to the Canadian healthcare context. The co-authors established conclusions and recommendations for each objective by evaluating the commonalities and differences across the studies, weighting the results by their methodological quality, and assessing their relevance to One Health principles.

Analysis These conclusions were then analysed for feasibility within the Canadian healthcare context using McMaster University’s Applicability and Transferability Tool. The tool is designed to capture important issues related to proposed policy or program interventions within a given healthcare context.

In 2023, Singapore dominated the ranking of the world's health and health systems, followed by Japan and South Korea. The health index score is calculated by evaluating various indicators that assess the health of the population, and access to the services required to sustain good health, including health outcomes, health systems, sickness and risk factors, and mortality rates. The health and health system index score of the top ten countries with the best healthcare system in the world ranged between 82 and 86.9, measured on a scale of zero to 100.

Global Health Security Index  Numerous health and health system indexes have been developed to assess various attributes and aspects of a nation's healthcare system. One such measure is the Global Health Security (GHS) index. This index evaluates the ability of 195 nations to identify, assess, and mitigate biological hazards in addition to political and socioeconomic concerns, the quality of their healthcare systems, and their compliance with international finance and standards. In 2021, the United States was ranked at the top of the GHS index, but due to multiple reasons, the U.S. government failed to effectively manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The GHS Index evaluates capability and identifies preparation gaps; nevertheless, it cannot predict a nation's resource allocation in case of a public health emergency.

Universal Health Coverage Index  Another health index that is used globally by the members of the United Nations (UN) is the universal health care (UHC) service coverage index. The UHC index monitors the country's progress related to the sustainable developmental goal (SDG) number three. The UHC service coverage index tracks 14 indicators related to reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, service capacity, and access to care. The main target of universal health coverage is to ensure that no one is denied access to essential medical services due to financial hardships. In 2021, the UHC index scores ranged from as low as 21 to a high score of 91 across 194 countries. 

Health Statistics at a Glance tables contain information on socio-economic risk factors or determinants of health, health status, new information on health outcomes and expanded information on utilization of the health care system. The aim of Health Statistics at a Glance tables is to present a core data set using the most recent information available. The indicator tables show extended time series for Canada, provinces and territorial levels of geography. Depending on the indicator, cross-classifications are by age and sex, and, in some cases by education. Due to the large amount of sample survey data used to construct the indicators, many tables cannot be produced for sub-provincial areas. Health Statistics at a Glance is an integrated information product. Its content reflects the growing demand for analysis of many current health issues supplemented by the underlying data. Within this CD-ROM there are three major components: the Statistical Report on the Health of Canadians, 17 Health Reports articles cited in the Statistical Report, and all of the components of Health Indicators, including Causes of Death. Users access the data as tabulations that they can display in various formats according to their own needs. The Health Statistics at a Glance CD-ROM contains the entire database of over 100 indicators and the software to access the information on a personal computer. The database can be accessed on the mainframe computer by using Statistics Canada's CANSIM cross-classified database.

Context

Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, the world is facing great crisis in every way. The value and things we built as a human race are going through tremendous challenges. It is a very small effort to bring curated data set on Novel Corona Virus to accelerate the forecasting and analytical experiments to cope up with this critical situation. It will help to visualize the country level out break and to keep track on regularly added new incidents.

COVID-19 Country Level Timeseries Dataset

This Dataset contains country wise public domain time series information on COVID-19 outbreak. The Data is sorted alphabetically on Country name and Date of Observation.

Column Descriptions

The data set contains the following columns:
ObservationDate: The date on which the incidents are observed country: Country of the Outbreak Confirmed: Number of confirmed cases till observation date Deaths: Number of death cases till observation date Recovered: Number of recovered cases till observation date New Confirmed: Number of new confirmed cases on observation date New Deaths: Number of New death cases on observation date New Recovered: Number of New recovered cases on observation date latitude: Latitude of the affected country longitude: Longitude of the affected country

Acknowledgements

This data set is a cleaner version of the https://www.kaggle.com/sudalairajkumar/novel-corona-virus-2019-dataset data set with added geo location information and regularly added incident counts. I would like to thank this great effort by SRK.

Original Data Source

Johns Hopkins University MoBS lab - https://www.mobs-lab.org/2019ncov.html World Health Organization (WHO): https://www.who.int/ DXY.cn. Pneumonia. 2020. http://3g.dxy.cn/newh5/view/pneumonia. BNO News: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/ National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC): http://www.nhc.gov.cn/xcs/yqtb/list_gzbd.shtml China CDC (CCDC): http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/news/TrackingtheEpidemic.htm Hong Kong Department of Health: https://www.chp.gov.hk/en/features/102465.html Macau Government: https://www.ssm.gov.mo/portal/ Taiwan CDC: https://sites.google.com/cdc.gov.tw/2019ncov/taiwan?authuser=0 US CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html Government of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus.html Australia Government Department of Health: https://www.health.gov.au/news/coronavirus-update-at-a-glance European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases Ministry of Health Singapore (MOH): https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19 Italy Ministry of Health: http://www.salute.gov.it/nuovocoronavirus

Chronic conditions among seniors aged 65 and older, Canadian Health Survey on Seniors, by age group and sex, Canada (excluding territories) and provinces.