An In-Depth Look at the Yukon Health Care System

Explore Yukon Health Care Using Health Indicators 

See data on the health of Canadians in Yukon and on the Yukon health care system. Explore important health care information on hospitals and long-term care facilities in this overview using a series of health indicators. Interactive statistics are provided on health care efficiency, safety, person-centredness, access, and appropriateness and effectiveness, as well as on health care status and social determinants.

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Health care access in Yukon

• View Yukon emergency department wait times for an initial assessment by a physician by facility, health region or territory
• See data on the total time admitted patients spent in Yukon emergency departments, comparing results for any health region, long-term care facility or hospital
• Get details on the percentage of people in Yukon who have a regular doctor

Health care person-centredness in Yukon

• See the number of repeated hospital stays for mental illness in Yukon

Health care efficiency in Yukon

• Explore Yukon health care administrative costs in relation to total expenses
• See details on the cost of a standard hospital stay in Yukon

Health care appropriateness and effectiveness in Yukon

• View statistics on all patients readmitted to hospital in Yukon
• See the number of Yukon medical patients readmitted to hospital
• Explore information on surgical patients readmitted to hospital in Yukon
• View hospital readmissions for Yukon obstetric patients
• See statistics on Yukon patients age 19 and younger who were readmitted to hospital
• Look at information on Yukon ambulatory care sensitive conditions
• See details on high users of hospital beds in Yukon
• View statistics on Yukon hospital deaths following major surgery
• See influenza immunizations in Yukon for seniors
• Compare statistics on Yukon low-risk Caesarean sections with those in other territories and the provinces
• View information on Yukon potentially inappropriate use of antipsychotics in long-term care
• Review information on Yukon restraint use in long-term care

Health care safety in Yukon

• Review data on in-hospital sepsis in Yukon
• Explore details on falls in Yukon long-term care in the last 30 days
• See Yukon worsened pressure ulcers in long-term care

Social determinants in Yukon health care

• See data on heavy drinking in Yukon
• Review the statistics on children vulnerable in areas of early development in Yukon
• View percentages of obesity in Yukon
• See percentages of smoking in Yukon
• Explore levels of physical activity in Yukon during leisure time

Health status in Yukon

• See details regarding life expectancy at birth in Yukon
• View information on life expectancy at age 65 in Yukon
• See statistics on perceived health in Yukon
• Read data results on avoidable deaths in Yukon
• Compare results on avoidable deaths from preventable causes in Yukon by health region, long-term care facility and hospital, and over time
• See the effectiveness of the health care system by exploring data on Yukon deaths that were avoidable from treatable causes
• View the number of heart attacks in Yukon that caused hospitalization
• Explore statistics on hospitalized strokes in Yukon
• See Yukon self-injury hospitalizations
• Explore data on Yukon improved physical functioning in long-term care
• See worsened physical functioning in Yukon long-term care
• Compare information on worsened depressive mood in Yukon long-term care
• Read details on experiencing pain in Yukon long-term care
• See data on Yukon worsened pain in long-term care