An In-Depth Look at the Quebec Health Care System

Explore Quebec Health Care Using Health Indicators 

Your Health System: In Depth provides a detailed overview of Quebec's health system and of the health of Canadians in Quebec. Information is provided on health care safety, access, efficiency, person-centredness, and appropriateness and effectiveness, as well as on health status and social determinants.

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Health care access in Quebec

• See information on the percentage of people with a regular doctor in Quebec

Health care person-centredness in Quebec

• View the percentage of repeat stays in Quebec hospitals by patients with mental illnesses

Health care efficiency in Quebec

• Explore Quebec health care administrative costs in relation to total expenses
• Explore data on Quebec costs of a standard hospital stay

Health care appropriateness and effectiveness in Quebec

• View statistics on all Quebec patients who were readmitted to hospital
• See the number of Quebec medical patients readmitted to hospital
• Explore information on Quebec surgical patients readmitted to hospital
• View hospital readmissions for Quebec obstetric patients
• See statistics on Quebec patients age 19 and younger who were readmitted to hospital
• Look at information on hospital care occurrences in Quebec for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
• See the highest users of Quebec hospital beds by hospital, long-term care organization, region or province
• Explore information on the number of hospital deaths in Quebec
• View statistics on Quebec hospital deaths following major surgery
• See information on Quebec influenza immunizations for seniors
• Glance through statistics on Quebec low-risk Caesarean sections

Health care safety in Quebec

• Review data on in-hospital sepsis in Quebec
• See statistics on the number of Quebec obstetric traumas with instrument

Social determinants in Quebec health care

• Compare heavy drinking in Quebec with that in other provinces
• Review the statistics on children vulnerable in areas of early development in Quebec
• View percentages of obesity in Quebec
• See smoking percentages in Quebec
• Explore levels of physical activity in Quebec during leisure time

Health status in Quebec

• See details regarding Quebec life expectancy at birth
• View information on life expectancy at age 65 in Quebec
• See how people in Quebec rated their overall social, mental and physical health
• Read data results on avoidable deaths in Quebec facilities and regions
• Explore results on avoidable deaths from preventable causes in Quebec by long-term care facility, hospital and health region, and over time
• See the effectiveness of the health care system by exploring data on Quebec deaths that were avoidable from treatable causes
• View the number of heart attacks in Quebec that caused hospitalization
• See Quebec hospitalizations that resulted from self-injury