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The Health of Canada’s Children and Youth
The CICH Profile evaluates and summarizes data on the health and well-being of Canadian children and youth through graphs, tables and commentaries covering a broad range of health indicators. The online Profile is a living battery of information as well as an educational resource and vehicle for knowledge translation related to both child health and data collection and analysis.
Profiles are in the form of different topic modules which are developed and launched on a regular basis with information being updated as new data (e.g. Census, Community Health Survey) is released and made publicly available.
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Notes:
Life expectancy is the number of years a person would be expected to live, starting at birth (for life expectancy at birth) or at age 65 (for life expectancy at age 65) if the age- and sex-specific mortality rates for a given observation period (such as a calendar year) were held constant over his/her life span.
Life expectancy is calculated with the Greville’s method for abridged life tables, using annual mortality rates with five-year age groupings of population and mortality rates. See “Life Tables, Canada, provinces and territories, 2000/2002” (catalogue number 84-537-XIE) for a complete explanation of the methodology used to produce abridged life tables.
Source: CICH graphic created using data adapted from Statistics Canada, Canadian Vital Statistics, Birth and Death Databases and population estimates. CANSIM table 102-0512. http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=1020512&&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=37&tabMode=dataTable&csid= (accessed March 19, 2017) is an update of CANSIM table 102-0511.
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Who created the Profile?
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The Canadian Institute of Child Health (CICH) was a national non-profit organization, founded in 1977 that promoted the health and well-being of all children and youth in Canada. CICH is known for their outstanding history of developing and implementing initiatives to enhance public awareness and understanding of issues impacting on children’s health; carrying out research, making policy recommendations, and helping communities to develop their resources and improve the health and development of their children.
The Health of Canada’s Children and Youth: A CICH Profile, is the signature publication of the Canadian Institute of Child Health.
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CICH gratefully acknowledges the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for supporting the development of the Profile web portal.