Inventory of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Environmental and Occupational Health Data
Sources and Surveillance Activities

Inventory of Data Sources

Canadian Heart and Stroke Surveillance System (CHSSS) (Health Canada)

Contacts
Seema Nagpal
Disease Intervention Division
Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
Population and Public Health Branch
Health Canada
Tel: (613) 941-1293
Fax: (613) 954-8286
E-mail: Seema_Nagpal@hc-sc.gc.ca

Rick Fry
[Affiliation same as above]
Tel: 957-7395
Fax: 954-8286
E-mail: Rick_Fry@hc-sc.gc.ca

Organization Maintaining the Database
Health Canada

Purpose of Database
No permanent data are kept, but enables data otherwise collected to be monitored, analyzed, and interpreted to reveal cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality rates and hospitalization trends in Canada, by province/territory and health region, as well as rates and trends of CVD hospital procedures.

Using a multi-partner and integrative approach, this system will reduce duplication and provide improved cost-effectiveness and coordination in CVD surveillance in Canada. Analyzed data may be used to provide information to Health Canada; provincial, territorial, and local governments; NGOs, professional organizations, and other stakeholders in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of cardiovascular disease prevention and control strategies and services.

Content
Data on cardiovascular disease mortality rates and hospitalization trends; hospital utilization (admissions and discharges); trends in hospital medical procedures for treatment of CVD. The database is being enhanced (1999) and currently includes activities related to the CVD Mortality and Hospitalization Databases and the CVD Hospital Procedures Database. Data types: epidemiological; demographic; admission/discharge; behavioural risk factors; health outcomes; financial; service visits; medical procedures.

The enhanced system will address present CVD data gaps: risk factors (other than behavioural), incidence, health care system encounters, treatment modalities, outcome indicators, quality of care, and economic burden.

Year Database Established
Not specified

Coverage Period
1995 / 1997 (latest years)

Data Updates
Annual

Data Providers
Statistics Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information

Data Availability
Not applicable

Reports
Analyzed data with interpretation results are disseminated to appropriate governments/stakeholders for planning, implementation, and evaluation of cardiovascular disease prevention and control programs and health care services.