Population Health: Reports and Trends
Mental health is about our relationship with ourselves and others; it shapes how we make decisions, handle stress, and relate to others.
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Smoking can lead to serious health problems such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer.
Health PEI collects and analyzes cancer data over time to help inform public health priorities, policies, and new areas of research.
Cancer Control Progress Measurements
Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control
Read about PEI’s progress on national...
The Chief Public Health Office Report is produced every two years to keep the public informed of changing health trends. The report contains information that can be used by government departments and community groups to inform health policy and programs...
The 2016 Chief Public Health Officer’s Report, Health For All Islanders, was accompanied by a technical appendix also titled, Health For All Islanders. This appendix summarizes the data produced by PEI's Chief Public Health Office as it investigated ...
Read the Chief Public Health Officer's Report 2021
A graph of the incidence of Chlamydia in PEI from 2008 to 2017, stratified by age.
A graph of the proportion of Chlamydia cases in PEI 2008-2017 stratified by sex.
A graph displaying the cases of Hepatitis C in PEI from 2008 to 2017, stratified by age.
Opioids are drugs that include prescribed pain relievers but also illegal drugs. Patients can benefit from opioids that are prescribed and used properly. When opioids are misused, they can be deadly.
Highly toxic opioids like fentanyl may be put in...
The Prince Edward Island Annual Influenza Summary 2018-19 Season is now available.
A chronic disease affecting many adults and children in Prince Edward Island (PEI), asthma is the result of hyper-responsive airways leading to chronic airway inflammation and an abnormal narrowing of the airway. The disease is characterized by repeated...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD is a term for multiple chronic respiratory diseases that include chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Most people with COPD have both conditions, resulting in a chronic cough with mucus from the chronic...
The Chief Public Health Office is mandated by the Public Health Act and the Notifiable Diseases and Conditions and Communicable Diseases Regulations to control certain communicable diseases in PEI. The Communicable Disease Program contributes to this...
Overview
Violence against anyone is unacceptable. Violence experienced by women, however, particularly intimate
partner violence and sexual assault, represents a unique aspect of the wider social problem of violence, and requires specific attention...
The Prince Edward Island Student Drug Use Report describes the prevalence and drug use trends for tobacco, alcohol, cannabis and other drugs as reported by PEI students in grades 6 through 12.
Data and figures presented in this report are based on the...
This is the first edition of a statistical description of women’s lives and work in Prince Edward Island. It is intended to provide a profile of women’s participation in education, business, government, and other aspects of community life. (1996)
Fourth Edition - Women in PEI : A Statistical Review 2020
Update on Zika Virus from the Chief Public Health Office