Air health trends

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Air health trends indicators were developed as a tool to monitor trends in public health impacts in Canada attributable to short-term exposure to 2 major outdoor air pollutants: ground-level ozone (O3) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Specifically, the indicators estimate over time the change in the percentage of all deaths, excluding those from injuries, and hospitalizations that can be attributed to exposure to O3 and PM2.5. Exposure to these air pollutants can lead to chronic lung disease, heart attacks, strokes, and mortality. These adverse health effects contribute to economic costs through lost productivity, additional visits to doctors’ offices and hospitals, and burden on the health care system. They also influence overall well-being when individuals and families must deal with illness and death. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: static and interactive maps, charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See the supplementary documentation for the data sources and details on how the data were collected and how the indicator was calculated.


Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators

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Metadata Record Information

File Identifier
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Date Stamp
2023-02-27T20:46:12
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Dataset
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators
 

Data identification

Date (Publication)
2022-12-15
Date (Creation)
2023-02-27
Status
Completed
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
utf8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Society
  • Health
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators

Keywords

Theme

  • air pollution, fine particulate matter, ozone

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Environment

  • Sustainable development

  • Environmental indicators

  • Air pollution

  • Air quality

  • Health impact

  • Health indicators
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )

Access Constraints
License
Use Constraints
License
Begin Date
1990-01-01
End Date
2018-03-12

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Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
 

Distribution

Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • CSV ( unknown )

 
Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Public Inquiries Centre
 
 

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Keywords

air pollution, fine particulate matter, ozone
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Air pollution Air quality Environment Environmental indicators Health impact Health indicators Sustainable development

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