Canada's Shared Health Priorities: Measuring Progress and Bridging Data Gaps With Common Indicators.

Abstract

In 2023, Canada's federal, provincial and territorial governments agreed to work together to improve healthcare across four priority areas and to develop common indicators to measure progress and report back to Canadians. In October 2024, the Canadian Institute for Health Information released Taking the Pulse: Measuring Shared Priorities for Canadian Health Care, 2024, which provides baseline results for 12 of these indicators. Some of the key findings include the following: Eighty-three percent of Canadians report having access to a regular healthcare provider. Half of Canadians referred to publicly funded community mental health counselling waited 25 days or less for their first scheduled session. Only two in five Canadians have accessed their personal health information electronically.