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Health Equity Data

Health equity is created when individuals have the fair opportunity to reach their fullest health potential. Achieving health equity requires reducing unnecessary and avoidable differences that are unfair and unjust. Our data products provide access to statistics and information related to health inequities as well as other health equity-associated factors such as: income, social status, race, gender, education and physical environment.

Alcohol-Attributable Hospitalizations

Provides rates of health status across five quintiles of marginalization as defined by the Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-Marg).

PHU and LHIN data from 2009-10 to 2022.

Assault-Related ED Visits

Provides rates of health status across five quintiles of marginalization as defined by the Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-Marg).

PHU and LHIN data from 2009-10 to 2022.

Potentially Avoidable Mortality

Provides data from ON-Marg dimensions and measures including material deprivation, residential instability, ethnic concentration and dependency.

PHU/LHIN (2008-09 to 2021)

Cardiovascular Disease Hospitalizations

Provides rates of health status across five quintiles of marginalization as defined by the Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-Marg).

PHU and LHIN data from 2009-10 to 2022.

COPD Hospitalizations

Provides rates of health status across five quintiles of marginalization as defined by the Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-Marg).

PHU and LHIN data from 2009-10 to 2022

Household Food Insecurity

Provides rates of household food insecurity in Ontario and for several sub-Ontario geographies. Data from (2019 to 2023) Canadian Income Surveys.

Low Birth Weight

Provides rates of health status across five quintiles of marginalization as defined by the Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-Marg).

PHU and LHIN data from 2009-10 to 2022.

Mental Health ED Visits

Provides rates of health status across five quintiles of marginalization as defined by the Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-Marg).

PHU and LHIN data from 2009-10 to 2022.

Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-Marg)

A data tool that combines a wide range of demographic indicators into four distinct dimensions of marginalization in Ontario, including economic, ethno-racial, age-based and social marginalization. PHU and LHIN data for the years 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016.

Oral Health ED Visits

Provides rates of health status across five quintiles of marginalization as defined by the Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-Marg).

PHU and LHIN data from 2009-10 to 2022.

Respiratory Disease Hospitalizations

Provides rates of health status across five quintiles of marginalization as defined by the Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-Marg).

PHU and LHIN data from 2009-10 to 2022.

Social Determinants of Health

Indicators include: income, immigration, education and population characteristics.

PHU/LHIN (2016 and 2021).

Ontario Marginalization Index Map

The Ontario Marginalization Index Map (previously Social Determinants of Health map) provides an interactive way to visualize and explore the geographic distribution of marginalization in Ontario.

Youth Self-Harm ED Visits

Provides rates of health status across five quintiles of marginalization as defined by the Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-Marg).

PHU and LHIN data from 2009-10 to 2022.

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Updated 5 July 2024
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