An In-Depth Look at the Nunavut Health Care System

Explore Nunavut Health Care Using Health Indicators

See statistics about the health of Canadians in Nunavut and about the Nunavut health care system. Explore health care data on hospitals and long-term care facilities in this informative overview using a series of health indicators. Interactive information is available on health care safety, access, efficiency, appropriateness and effectiveness, and person-centredness, as well as on social determinants and health status, by selecting different criteria.

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Health care access in Nunavut

• See data on people with a regular doctor in Nunavut

Health care person-centredness in Nunavut

• See the number of repeat hospital stays for mental illness in Nunavut

Health care appropriateness and effectiveness in Nunavut

• See statistics on all Nunavut patients who were readmitted to hospital
• View the number of Nunavut medical patients readmitted to hospital
• Explore information on Nunavut surgical patients readmitted to hospital
• See hospital readmissions for Nunavut obstetric patients
• View statistics on Nunavut patients age 19 and younger who were readmitted to hospital
• Look at information on Nunavut ambulatory care sensitive conditions
• View details on high users of Nunavut hospital beds
• Compare statistics on Nunavut low-risk Caesarean sections with those of other territories and the provinces

Health care safety in Nunavut

• Review data on in-hospital sepsis in Nunavut

Social determinants in Nunavut health care

• See data on heavy drinking in Nunavut
• View percentages of obesity in Nunavut
• See percentages of smoking in Nunavut
• Explore levels of physical activity in Nunavut during leisure time

Health status in Nunavut

• See details on life expectancy at birth in Nunavut
• View information on life expectancy at age 65 in Nunavut over time
• See how people in Nunavut rated their overall social, mental and physical health
• Read data results on avoidable deaths in Nunavut
• Compare results on avoidable deaths from preventable causes in Nunavut by health region, long-term care facility and hospital, and over time
• See the effectiveness of the health care system by exploring data on Nunavut deaths that were avoidable from treatable causes
• View the number of Nunavut hospitalized heart attacks

• Explore statistics on how often strokes in Nunavut resulted in hospitalization
• See Nunavut self-injury hospitalizations