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Home care, community care, mental health services and substance use services in Canada
December 8, 2022 — Canadians now have more information about access to home and community care and to mental health and substance use services in their province or territory. The December 2022 release marks an important milestone — the full suite of 12 indicators is now available.
Results are available for the following 3 new indicators:
- Early Intervention for Mental Health and Substance Use Among Children and Youth
- Navigation of Mental Health and Substance Use Services
- Death at Home or in Community
These are part of a set of 12 pan-Canadian Shared Health PrioritiesFootnote i indicators chosen by the federal, provincialFootnote ii and territorial (FPT) health ministries, in consultation with Canadians, to measure access to home and community care and to mental health and substance use services.
Data for the 3 new Shared Health Priorities indicators and the 9 previously released indicators can be found in CIHI’s Your Health System web tool. For this release, a number of enhancements have been made where data supports, including
- More timely results
- Region-level reporting
- New trend information
Over time, these indicators will tell a clearer story about access to care across the country, identify where there are gaps in services and help to make meaningful changes to improve the experiences of Canadian patients and their families.
Note: The indicator results include data from the COVID-19 pandemic period and should be interpreted in the context of the pandemic.
Featured material
2022 companion report
Get contextual information to help understand how to interpret the results, clarify data limitations and identify factors that might influence the results.
Updated indicators
Indicators of access to mental health and substance use services
Featured stories
Thousands of Canadians wait months before receiving community mental health counselling
Read about the wait times Canadians experience before receiving mental health counselling.
Find out more about wait times for community mental health counselling
Hospital stays for substance use harms increased during the first months of the pandemic
Explore results for hospital stays and emergency department visits for harms caused by substances such as opioids, alcohol and others.
Find out more about hospital stays and ED visits for substance use harms
Related resources
- Shared Health Priorities Survey-Based Data Collection — Frequently Asked Questions (learn about survey-based data collection for 2 new mental health and substance use–related Shared Health Priorities indicators)
- Indicator library (learn about the definitions and methodologies for the indicators)
- Shared Health Priorities
- Health system performance
- Working with patients and families
- Impact of COVID-19 on Canada’s health care systems
Footnotes
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- The federal government agreed to an asymmetrical arrangement with Quebec, distinct from the Common Statement of Principles.