Mental health and substance use: Indicators

This indicator measures the risk-adjusted rate of readmission following discharge for mental health and substance use disorders.

This document summarizes the Early Intervention indicator’s methodology, results, caveats and other identifying information. Higher is better. The higher the result, the higher the number of individuals with early needs who accessed community-based…

This indicator gives the percentage of individuals who had 4 or more emergency room (ER) or urgent care centre (UCC) visits for help with mental health and substance use in a given year.

Heavy drinking is defined as men who reported consuming 5 or more drinks or women who reported consuming 4 or more drinks on 1 occasion at least once a month in the past year. It is calculated for the population age 12 and older.

This indicator calculates the age-standardized rate of hospital stays for harm caused by substance use per 100,000 population age 10 and older.

This indicator provides the age-standardized rate of hospitalizations with conditions that are wholly (100%) attributable to alcohol, per 100,000 population age 10 and older.

​​Number, percentage, and crude and age-standardized rate of discharges for mental health and substance use disorder hospitalizations, by Canada and province/territory.

​This document summarizes the Navigation indicator’s methodology, results, caveats and other identifying information.

This indicator measures the risk-adjusted percentage of individuals who had 3 or more episodes of care for mental health and substance use (MHSU) disorders among all those who had at least one episode of care for MHSU disorders in general or psychiatric…

This indicator provides the rate of hospitalizations due to self-harm. Lower rates are desirable as they signal less frequent severe self-harm.