Health PEI collects and analyzes cancer data over time to help inform public health priorities, policies, and new areas of research. Cancer Control Progress Measurements Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control Read about PEI’s progress on national...
The Chief Public Health Office Report is produced every two years to keep the public informed of changing health trends. The report contains information that can be used by government departments and community groups to inform health policy and...
The 2016 Chief Public Health Officer’s Report, Health For All Islanders, was accompanied by a technical appendix also titled, Health For All Islanders. This appendix summarizes the data produced by PEI's Chief Public Health Office as it investigated...
Opioids are drugs that include prescribed pain relievers but also illegal drugs. Patients can benefit from opioids that are prescribed and used properly. When opioids are misused, they can be deadly. Highly toxic opioids like fentanyl may be put in...
A chronic disease affecting many adults and children in Prince Edward Island (PEI), asthma is the result of hyper-responsive airways leading to chronic airway inflammation and an abnormal narrowing of the airway. The disease is characterized by...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD is a term for multiple chronic respiratory diseases that include chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Most people with COPD have both conditions, resulting in a chronic cough with mucus from the chronic...
The Chief Public Health Office is mandated by the Public Health Act and the Notifiable Diseases and Conditions and Communicable Diseases Regulations to control certain communicable diseases in PEI. The Communicable Disease Program contributes to this...
Overview Violence against anyone is unacceptable. Violence experienced by women, however, particularly intimate partner violence and sexual assault, represents a unique aspect of the wider social problem of violence, and requires specific attention...
The Prince Edward Island Student Drug Use Report describes the prevalence and drug use trends for tobacco, alcohol, cannabis and other drugs as reported by PEI students in grades 6 through 12. Data and figures presented in this report are based on...
This is the first edition of a statistical description of women’s lives and work in Prince Edward Island. It is intended to provide a profile of women’s participation in education, business, government, and other aspects of community life. (1996)
