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The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases.

Emergency department surveillance of injuries and head injuries associated with baseball, football, soccer and ice hockey, children and youth, ages 5 to 18 years, 2004 to 2014

The Canada Communicable Disease Report is a bilingual, open-access, peer-reviewed journal on the prevention and control of emerging and persistent infectious diseases. 

Displays a bar chart showing either the number or rate of reported cases for a single disease or multiple diseases (up to 6) for any selected year from 1991 up to 2016 and is displayed by age group. The source data table, limitations of the data and descriptions of the selected notifiable...

Displays a stacked bar chart showing either the number or rate of reported cases of a single disease in any selected year (from 1991 up to 2016). Each bar represents a specific age group and is stacked to show sex breakdown within the age group. The source data table, limitations of the data and...

1 in 8 people (4 million Canadians) get sick each year from contaminated food. Over 11,500 hospitalizations and 240 deaths occur each year due to food-related illnesses. Numbers includes both estimates for 30 foodborne pathogens and unknown causes of acute gastrointestinal illness.

The birth prevalence of Down syndrome in Canada (excluding Quebec) has been stable in the last decade, averaging 15.8 per 10,000 total births, between 2005 and 2013. The rate of Down syndrome among stillbirths remained relatively stable around 31.2 per 1,000 stillbirths, except for a slight...

Infographic - Do Relationships Matter to the Health of Canada’s Youth?

This report focuses on the work done to address federal public health priorities that promote and protect the health and well-being of Canadians. This year’s report also supports the new Treasury Board Policy on Results and the Government of Canada’s commitment to provide improved reporting to...

2017–18 Departmental Plan provides parliamentarians and Canadians with information on what we do and the results we are trying to achieve during the upcoming year.