Geographic information for Ontario Health (OH) Regions, and Home and Community Care Support Services (HCCSS) boundaries. The HCCSS boundary file is maintained by Statistics Canada. A link is provided to the Statistics Canada website where you can download the HCCSS boundary file in a variety of formats. Data includes: * Ontario Health Region boundaries * HCCSS boundaries * LHIN office locations (historical)

This geospatial dataset contains the geographic boundaries of the 34 Public Health Units (PHUs) in Ontario, based on Statistics Canada’s Health Region Boundary File (2018). A PHU is the area of jurisdiction of a board of health. PHUs in Ontario are defined in Regulation 553 (Revised Regulations of Ontario), pursuant to Health Protection and Promotion Act R.S.O. 1990, Amended to O. Reg. 64/05.

In response to the MOHLTC’s Patients First Strategy, LHIN sub-regions were developed and defined by the individual LHINs in late 2016 to plan performance improvement and service integration at a community level. The MOHLTC Sub-region Cartographic Boundary File is an ESRI geodatabase / layer file that includes the boundaries for all of Ontario’s 76 sub-regions for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This file should be used for the display of sub-region boundaries and not to select Census geography for analysis.

In October 2016, each LHIN submitted a Guide to Formalizing LHIN Sub-Regions to the MOHLTC. This document included a description of the geography of the LHIN’s sub-regions. HAB used these descriptions to build geographic boundaries using standard 2011 census components (Census Subdivisions and Dissemination Areas), or used the GIS files supplied by the LHIN.

In more rural areas of the North East and North West LHINs, sub-region boundaries are not based on Census components because it was not possible to create large contiguous areas. HAB worked with both LHINs to refine the boundaries in these areas. Since this boundary file does not correspond to Census geography in all areas of the province, we refer to it as a ‘cartographic’ file.

The file is supplied as a polygon feature class in an ESRI File Geodatabase (FGDB) or as an ESRI Shapefile. The co-ordinate system of the file is GCS North American 1983. Field descriptions and additional information are included in the FGDB or Shapefile metadata.

Status

Completed: Production of the data has been completed

Maintenance and Update Frequency

Not Stated

Contact

Mike Pacey, Senior Health Analyst, Health Analytics Branch, Mike.Pacey@ontario.ca

This dataset compiles daily snapshots of publicly reported data on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing in Ontario. Learn how the Government of Ontario is helping to keep Ontarians safe during the 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak. Data includes: * date * OH region * current hospitalizations with COVID-19 * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) due to COVID-related critical Illness * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) testing positive for COVID * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) no longer testing positive for COVID * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) on ventilators due to COVID-related critical illness * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) on ventilators testing positive for COVID * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) on ventilators no longer testing positive for COVID **Effective November 14, 2024 this page will no longer be updated. Information about COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses is available on Public Health Ontario’s interactive respiratory virus tool: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-Analysis/Infectious-Disease/Respiratory-Virus-Tool ** ##Additional notes Data for the period of October 24, 2023 to March 24, 2024 excludes hospitals in the West region who were experiencing data availability issues. Daily adult, pediatric, and neonatal patient ICU census data were impacted by technical issues between September 9 and October 20, 2023. As a result, when public reporting resumes on November 16, 2023, historical ICU data for this time period will be excluded. As of August 3, 2023, the data in this file has been updated to reflect that there are now six Ontario Health (OH) regions. This dataset is subject to change. Please review the daily epidemiologic summaries for information on variables, methodology, and technical considerations.

Ontario's Tele-Mental Health Service provides access to specialized mental health consultants to children and youth in rural, remote and underserved communities. This service uses videoconferencing. These shapefiles provide geospatial data used for mapping the 6 Tele-Mental Health service regions in Ontario. 3 serve the aboriginal population and 3 serve the general population.

Estimated number of persons on July 1st, by age group and gender, for Canada, provinces and territories, health regions and peer groups.

Child and youth mental health services provide a range of planned, multidisciplinary interventions for youth and their families. In each defined service area, a designated Transfer Payment Agency is responsible for coordinating ministry-funded child and youth mental health services. The agency also ensures the defined core services and key processes outlined in the Child and Youth Mental Health Service Framework are implemented in all service providers.

This dataset compiles daily snapshots of publicly reported data on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing in Ontario. Learn how the Government of Ontario is helping to keep Ontarians safe during the 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak. Data includes: * date * OH region * current hospitalizations with COVID-19 * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) due to COVID-related critical Illness * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) testing positive for COVID * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) no longer testing positive for COVID * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) on ventilators due to COVID-related critical illness * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) on ventilators testing positive for COVID * current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) on ventilators no longer testing positive for COVID ##Additional notes As of June 16, all COVID-19 datasets will be updated weekly on Thursdays by 2pm. Data for the period of October 24, 2023 to March 24, 2024 excludes hospitals in the West region who were experiencing data availability issues. Daily adult, pediatric, and neonatal patient ICU census data were impacted by technical issues between September 9 and October 20, 2023. As a result, when public reporting resumes on November 16, 2023, historical ICU data for this time period will be excluded. As of August 3, 2023, the data in this file has been updated to reflect that there are now six Ontario Health (OH) regions. This dataset is subject to change. Please review the daily epidemiologic summaries for information on variables, methodology, and technical considerations.

This table contains 2754 series, with data for years 2005/2007 - 2012/2014 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (153 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority, Newfoundland and Labrador; Central Regional Integrated Health Authority, Newfoundland and Labrador; ...); Age group (2 items: At birth; At age 65); Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Males; Females); Characteristics (3 items: Life expectancy; Low 95% confidence interval, life expectancy; High 95% confidence interval, life expectancy).

Status of COVID-19 cases in Ontario

This dataset compiles daily snapshots of publicly reported data on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing in Ontario.

Learn how the Government of Ontario is helping to keep Ontarians safe during the 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak.

Effective April 13, 2023, this dataset will be discontinued. The public can continue to access the data within this dataset in the following locations updated weekly on the Ontario Data Catalogue:

• Ontario COVID-19 testing percent positive by age group
• Confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in Ontario
• Ontario COVID-19 testing metrics by Public Health Unit (PHU)
• Ontario COVID-19 testing percent positive by age group
• COVID-19 cases in hospital and ICU, by Ontario Health (OH) region
• Cumulative deaths (new methodology)
• Deaths Involving COVID-19 by Fatality Type

For information on Long-Term Care Home COVID-19 Data, please visit: Long-Term Care Home COVID-19 Data.

Data includes:

• reporting date
• daily tests completed
• total tests completed
• test outcomes
• total case outcomes (resolutions and deaths)
• current tests under investigation
• current hospitalizations
  • current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) due to COVID-related critical Illness
  • current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) testing positive for COVID-19
  • current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) no longer testing positive for COVID-19
  • current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) on ventilators due to COVID-related critical illness
  • current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) on ventilators testing positive for COVID-19
  • current patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) on ventilators no longer testing positive for COVID-19
• Long-Term Care (LTC) resident and worker COVID-19 case and death totals
• Variants of Concern case totals
• number of new deaths reported (occurred in the last month)
• number of historical deaths reported (occurred more than one month ago)
• change in number of cases from previous day by Public Health Unit (PHU).

This dataset is subject to change. Please review the daily epidemiologic summaries for information on variables, methodology, and technical considerations.

Cumulative Deaths

**Effective November 14, 2024 this page will no longer be updated. Information about COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses is available on Public Health Ontario’s interactive respiratory virus tool: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-Analysis/Infectious-Disease/Respiratory-Virus-Tool **

The methodology used to count COVID-19 deaths has changed to exclude deaths not caused by COVID. This impacts data captured in the columns “Deaths”, “Deaths_Data_Cleaning” and “newly_reported_deaths” starting with data for March 11, 2022. A new column has been added to the file “Deaths_New_Methodology” which represents the methodological change.

The method used to count COVID-19 deaths has changed, effective December 1, 2022. Prior to December 1, 2022, deaths were counted based on the date the death was updated in the public health unit’s system. Going forward, deaths are counted on the date they occurred.

On November 30, 2023 the count of COVID-19 deaths was updated to include missing historical deaths from January 15, 2020 to March 31, 2023. A small number of COVID deaths (less than 20) do not have recorded death date and will be excluded from this file.

CCM is a dynamic disease reporting system which allows ongoing update to data previously entered. As a result, data extracted from CCM represents a snapshot at the time of extraction and may differ from previous or subsequent results. Public Health Units continually clean up COVID-19 data, correcting for missing or overcounted cases and deaths. These corrections can result in data spikes and current totals being different from previously reported cases and deaths. Observed trends over time should be interpreted with caution for the most recent period due to reporting and/or data entry lags.

Related dataset(s)

• Confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in Ontario

This data set contains the boundaries for Public Health Units (PHU) in Ontario.

A Public Health Unit is an official health agency established by a group of urban and rural municipalities to provide a more efficient community health program. There are 36 Public Health Units in Ontario.

Health units administer health promotion and disease prevention programs to inform the public about healthy life-styles, communicable disease control including education in STDs/AIDS, immunization, food premises inspection, healthy growth and development including parenting education, health education for all age groups and selected screening services. PHUs and Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) represent administrative Health Regions in Ontario.

This geospatial dataset contains the geographic boundaries of the 34 Public Health Units (PHUs) in Ontario, based on Statistics Canada’s Health Region Boundary File (2018). A PHU is the area of jurisdiction of a board of health. PHUs in Ontario are defined in Regulation 553 (Revised Regulations of Ontario), pursuant to Health Protection and Promotion Act R.S.O. 1990, Amended to O. Reg. 64/05.

Additional DocumentationMinistry of Health Public Health Unit Boundary - Data Description (PDF)Ministry of Health Public Health Unit Boundary - Documentation (Word)

Status

On going: data is being continually updated

Maintenance and Update Frequency

As needed: data is updated as deemed necessary

Contact

Mary Ward, Mary.Ward1@ontario.ca

This data set contains the address locations of Public Health Unit (PHU) offices in Ontario.

A Public Health Unit is an official health agency established by a group of urban and rural municipalities to provide a more efficient community health program. There are 36 Public Health Units in Ontario. Health units administer health promotion and disease prevention programs to inform the public about healthy life-styles, communicable disease control including education in STDs/AIDS, immunization, food premises inspection, healthy growth and development including parenting education, health education for all age groups and selected screening services. PHUs and Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) represent administrative Health Regions in Ontario.

Footnotes: 1 Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Vital Statistics, Death Database and Demography Division (population estimates). The table 13-10-0743-01 is an update of table 13-10-0412-01. This is because of the adoption of the 2015 version of the Health Region Geography. For more information, consult Statistics Canada's publication Health Regions: Boundaries and Correspondence with Census Geography" (catalogue number 82-402-X)." 2 Mortality is the death rate, which can be measured as total mortality (all causes of death combined) or by selected cause of death. All counts and rates are calculated using the total population (all age groups). 3 Potential years of life lost (PYLL) is the number of years of potential life not lived when a person dies prematurely" defined for this indicator as before age 75. All counts and rates in this table are calculated using the population aged 0 to 74." 4 Counts and rates in this table are based on three consecutive years of death data. Rates are per 100,000 population and were calculated by dividing the counts by three consecutive years of population data. 5 Rates are age-standardized using the direct method and the 2011 Canadian Census population structure. The use of a standard population results in more meaningful rate comparisons because it adjusts for variations in population age distributions over time and across geographic areas. 6 Counts and rates in this table exclude: deaths of non-residents of Canada; deaths of residents of Canada whose province or territory of residence was unknown; deaths for which age of decedent was unknown. 7 Rates in this table are based on place of residence for indicators derived from death events. 8 The number of deaths in Ontario for 2016 is considered preliminary. 9 Health regions are administrative areas defined by provincial ministries of health according to provincial legislation. The health regions presented in this table are based on boundaries and names in effect as of December 2017. For complete Canadian coverage, each northern territory represents a health region. 10 Peer groups are aggregations of health regions that share similar socio-economic and demographic characteristics, based on data from the 2011 Census of Population and 2011 National Household Survey. These are useful in the analysis of health regions, where important differences may be detected by comparing health regions within a peer group. The nine peer groups are identified by the letters A through I, which are appended to the health region 4-digit code. Caution should be taken when comparing data for the Peer Groups over time due to changes in the Peer Groups. In an analysis involving the peer groups, only one level of geography in Ontario should be used. For more information on the peer groups classification, consult Statistics Canada's publication Health Regions: Boundaries and Correspondence with Census Geography" (catalogue number 82-402-X)." 11 Before 2010, missing data on sex of the deceased were imputed based on death registration number. Starting with 2010 data year, missing data on sex of the deceased were imputed based on the cause of death information and a logistic regression. 12 The cause of death tabulated is the underlying cause of death. This is defined as (a) the disease or injury which initiated the train of events leading directly to death, or (b) the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury. The underlying cause is selected from the conditions listed on the medical certificate of cause of death. 13 Confidence intervals for age-standardized rates for selected causes of death data were produced using the Spiegelman method. Source: Spiegelman, M., Introduction to Demography" Revised Edition Cambridge14 Confidence intervals for crude rates for selected causes of death data were produced using the Fleiss method. Source: Fleiss, JL., Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions" Second Edition New York15 The 95% confidence interval (CI) illustrates the degree of variability associated with a number or a rate. 16 Wide confidence intervals (CIs) indicate high variability, thus, these numbers or rates should be interpreted and compared with due caution. 17 The following standard symbols are used in this Statistics Canada table: (..) for figures not available for a specific reference period, (...) for figures not applicable and (x) for figures suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act. 18 The figures shown in the tables have been subjected to a confidentiality procedure known as controlled rounding to prevent the possibility of associating statistical data with any identifiable individual. Under this method, all figures, including totals and margins, are rounded either up or down to a multiple of 5. Controlled rounding has the advantage over other types of rounding of producing additive tables as well as offering more protection. 19 Premature deaths are those of individuals who are younger than age 75.

Ontario provides a range of services and supports to children and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

In each defined service area, a lead Transfer Payment Agency is responsible for coordinating autism services funded by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. They also ensure that the core services and key processes are implemented in all service providers.

Instructions for downloading this dataset:

• select the link below and scroll down the metadata record page until you find **Transfer Options **in the Distribution Information section
• select the link beside the Data for download label
• you must provide your name, organization and email address in order to access the dataset

This product requires the use of GIS software.

*[GIS]: geographic information system

On November 3, 2020, Ontario released a COVID-19 Response Framework which categorized public health unit regions into five zones:

• Green-Prevent
• Yellow-Protect
• Orange-Restrict
• Red-Control
• Grey-Lockdown

For each zone, there were different public health and workplace safety measures for businesses and organizations.

Data includes:

• Public Health Unit (PHU)
• PHU’s website
• COVID-19 zone

We are no longer updating this data. It is best suited for historical research and analysis.

Footnotes: 1 Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Vital Statistics, Death Database and Demography Division (population estimates). The table 13-10-0743-01 is an update of table 13-10-0412-01. This is because of the adoption of the 2015 version of the Health Region Geography. For more information, consult Statistics Canada's publication Health Regions: Boundaries and Correspondence with Census Geography" (catalogue number 82-402-X)." 2 Mortality is the death rate, which can be measured as total mortality (all causes of death combined) or by selected cause of death. All counts and rates are calculated using the total population (all age groups). 3 Potential years of life lost (PYLL) is the number of years of potential life not lived when a person dies prematurely" defined for this indicator as before age 75. All counts and rates in this table are calculated using the population aged 0 to 74."4 Counts and rates in this table are based on three consecutive years of death data. Rates are per 100,000 population and were calculated by dividing the counts by three consecutive years of population data. 5 Rates are age-standardized using the direct method and the 2011 Canadian Census population structure. The use of a standard population results in more meaningful rate comparisons because it adjusts for variations in population age distributions over time and across geographic areas. 6 Counts and rates in this table exclude: deaths of non-residents of Canada; deaths of residents of Canada whose province or territory of residence was unknown; deaths for which age of decedent was unknown. 7 Rates in this table are based on place of residence for indicators derived from death events. 8 The number of deaths in Ontario for 2016 is considered preliminary. 9 Health regions are administrative areas defined by provincial ministries of health according to provincial legislation. The health regions presented in this table are based on boundaries and names in effect as of December 2017. For complete Canadian coverage, each northern territory represents a health region. 10 Peer groups are aggregations of health regions that share similar socio-economic and demographic characteristics, based on data from the 2011 Census of Population and 2011 National Household Survey. These are useful in the analysis of health regions, where important differences may be detected by comparing health regions within a peer group. The nine peer groups are identified by the letters A through I, which are appended to the health region 4-digit code. Caution should be taken when comparing data for the Peer Groups over time due to changes in the Peer Groups. In an analysis involving the peer groups, only one level of geography in Ontario should be used. For more information on the peer groups classification, consult Statistics Canada's publication Health Regions: Boundaries and Correspondence with Census Geography" (catalogue number 82-402-X)." 11 Before 2010, missing data on sex of the deceased were imputed based on death registration number. Starting with 2010 data year, missing data on sex of the deceased were imputed based on the cause of death information and a logistic regression. 12 The cause of death tabulated is the underlying cause of death. This is defined as (a) the disease or injury which initiated the train of events leading directly to death, or (b) the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury. The underlying cause is selected from the conditions listed on the medical certificate of cause of death. 13 Confidence intervals for age-standardized rates for selected causes of death data were produced using the Spiegelman method. Source: Spiegelman, M., Introduction to Demography" Revised Edition14 Confidence intervals for crude rates for selected causes of death data were produced using the Fleiss method. Source: Fleiss, JL., Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions" Second Edition15 The 95% confidence interval (CI) illustrates the degree of variability associated with a number or a rate. 16 Wide confidence intervals (CIs) indicate high variability, thus, these numbers or rates should be interpreted and compared with due caution. 17 The following standard symbols are used in this Statistics Canada table: (..) for figures not available for a specific reference period, (...) for figures not applicable and (x) for figures suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act. 18 The figures shown in the tables have been subjected to a confidentiality procedure known as controlled rounding to prevent the possibility of associating statistical data with any identifiable individual. Under this method, all figures, including totals and margins, are rounded either up or down to a multiple of 5. Controlled rounding has the advantage over other types of rounding of producing additive tables as well as offering more protection. 19 Premature deaths are those of individuals who are younger than age 75.

Epidemiology and resource indicators for all health regions in Ontario, fiscal 2008–2013. Table S2. Demographic and clinical characteristics of persons admitted to acute care for surgical repair of hip fracture in Ontario, by health region, fiscal 2008–2013. Table S3. Epidemiology and resource indicators for High IPR LHINs and all other LHINs, Ontario, fiscal 2008-2013. (XLSX 29 kb)

This statistic shows the number of health and personal care stores in Canada as of December 2016, by region. There were 11,234 health and personal care stores in the province of Ontario as of December 2016.

Ontario's Healthy Babies Healthy Children program helps infants and children up to age 6 and their families through: * risk screening and assessments * referrals to community programs and services * supports for new parents These shapefiles provide geospatial data for mapping the 34 Healthy Babies and Healthy Children delivery regions in Ontario. Please note: The Healthy Babies Healthy Children program is delivered through Ontario’s public health units in partnership with hospitals and other community partners. The Healthy Babies Healthy Children boundaries align with Public Health Unit boundaries.