Our health status relies greatly on good health practices, activity levels, and access to health care and physicians.

• Obesity* Rates
• Life Expectancy at Birth
• Percent With Quite a Lot of Stress
• Leisure-Time Percent Moderately Active
• Percent Daily or Occasional Smokers
• Percent Heavy* Drinkers
  
• Percent With a Regular Medical Doctor
• Percent With Flu Shot Within Last Year
• Self-Rated Health: Percent Very Good or Excellent
  
• Percent Current Smokers
• Percent 12+ With Participation and Activity Limitation
  
• Physicians (General/Family Physicians and Specialists) per 100,000
• Work Absence for Full-time Employees
• EMS Code 4, 90th Percentile Response Time
  

Vital Signs® Canada Original Data Sources

7-1 Obesity* Rates 

	2003	2005	2007	2008
Waterloo Region	16.3	16.7	17.7	18.7
Ontario	14.8	15.1	14.8	17.1
Canada	14.9	15.5	16.1	17.2

 

Source:  Canadian Community Health Survey ( CCHS 2.1 and 3.1), and http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2008001/profiles-en.htm; 2008 figures from Canada Health Reports, 2008

* Self -reported adult body mass index 30.0 or higher (18 years and over) Note: number for Waterloo Region 2007 an approximation)

 

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7-2 Life Expectancy at Birth

  

	1997	2001	2008
Waterloo Region	79.1	79.7	79.7
Ontario	78.8	79.7	79.7
Canada	78.5	79.5	79.5

 

 

 

 

Source: Statistics Canada, Vital Statistics- Deaths Database; 2008 figures from Canada Health Reports, 2008

 

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7-3 Percent With Quite a Lot of Stress 

   

 

	2003	2005	2007	2008
Waterloo Region	24.8	22.2	21.4	19
Ontario	24.3	22.7	22.1	22.3
Canada	24	22.8	22.4	22.3

 

 

 

 

Source: http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2006001/tables/t004b.pdf, http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2008001/profiles-en.htm; 2008 figures from Canada Health Reports, 2008

 

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7-4 Leisure-Time Percent Moderately Active

	2001	2003	2005	2008
Waterloo Region	52.3	51.7	45.7	43.4
Ontario	50	51.3	48.8	49.5
Canada	50.4	51	49	50.6

 

 

 

 

Source:  Canadian Community Health Survey ( CCHS 2.1 and 3.1), http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2008001/profiles-en.htm; 2008 figures from Canada Health Reports, 2008

 

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7-5 Percent Daily or Occasional Smokers

	2003	2005	2007	2008
Waterloo Region	23	19.1	22.2	21.1
Ontario	22.1	20.7	20.6	19.8
Canada	22.9	21.7	21.9	21.4

Source: Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2008001/profiles-en.htm; 2008 figures from Canada Health Reports, 2008

 

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7-6 Percent Heavy* Drinkers

 

	2003	2005	2007	2008
Waterloo Region	23.7	20.4	23.3	20.5
Ontario	20.5	21.5	21.1	15.5
Canada	20.7	21.8	21.8	16.7

* 5 or more drinks, 12 times a year

Source: Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2008001/profiles-en.htm; 2008 figures from Canada Health Reports, 2008

 

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7-7 Percent With a Regular Medical Doctor

     

	2003	2005	2007	2008
Waterloo Region	93.1	92.4	93.8	90.9
Ontario	91.8	91.4	90.4	91
Canada	85.8	85.6	84.8	84.4

Source: Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2008001/profiles-en.htm; 2008 figures from Canada Health Reports, 2008

 

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7-8 Percent With Flu Shot Within Last Year

                    

	2003	2005	2007
Waterloo Region	35.1	38	32.9
Ontario	34	41.4	35.7
Canada	26.6	32.7	30.4

Source: Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2008001/profiles-en.htm

 

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7-9 Self-Rated Health: Percent Very Good or Excellent

   

	2003	2005	2007	2008
Waterloo Region	61.4	61.4	63	61.7
Ontario	57.2	60.8	60	59.3
Canada	58.4	60.1	59.6	59.3

Source: http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2006001/tables/t002c.pdf, and http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2008001/profiles-en.htm; 2008 figures from Canada Health Reports, 2008

 

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7-10 Percent Current Smokers

	2003	2005	2007	2008
Waterloo Region	23	19.1	22.2	21.1
Ontario	22.1	20.7	20.6	19.8
Canada	22.9	21.7	21.9	21.4

Source:  Canadian Community Health Survey ( CCHS 2.1 and 3.1), http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2008001/profiles-en.htm; 2008 figures from Canada Health Reports, 2008

 

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7-11 Percent 12+ With Participation and Activity Limitation

	2003	2005	2007
Waterloo Region	31.9	28.3	27
Ontario	31.7	29.4	33.1
Canada	31.2	29.6	31.2

Source: http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2006001/tables/t004a.pdf, and http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2008001/profiles-en.htm

 

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7-12 Physicians (General/Family Physicians and Specialists) per 100,000

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Waterloo Region	121	121	124	126	n.a.	128	130	128	128	132
Ontario	n.a	180	181	180	180	177	178	177	174	177
Canada	185	187	188	188	189	188	189	191	191	193

 

 

 

Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information, Health Indicator Reports.

 

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7-13 Work Absence for Full-time Employees

	1987	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Waterloo Region	9.2	6.5	7.9	8	8	7.6	7.9	8.2	8.3	7.4
Ontario	8.5	7.1	7.6	8.4	8.3	8.5	8.6	8.8	9.3	9.5
Canada	8.5	8	8.5	9.1	9.2	9.2	9.6	9.7	10.2	10

Source: For CMA data, Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, Cansim Table 279-0029.  Data for the economic regions are by special request, program A060807.

 

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7-14 EMS Code 4, 90th Percentile Response Time

	1996	2006	2007
Waterloo Region	10.3	12.48	12.41
Ontario Median	10.3	11.04	11.12

 

 

 

Source: OMBI 2007 

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