A Picture of Health: A Comprehensive Report on Health in Peel 2008 is the first report produced by Peel Public Health to provide the big picture on the health of the citizens in our region. It provides a wide range of information about who we are, the state of our health and the factors that influence our health. While no report can address all of the many diseases and conditions which affect us; this report is a snapshot of health conditions which have significant impact on the population: highlighting those which are changing, and those which are most amendable to prevention. Throughout the report, it is evident that health status is linked to a number of determinants, including income, education, social support, the workplace, stress, healthy child development and migration.

This report includes the following sections and chapters:

• Table of Contents (PDF 50KB, 1 page)
• Executive Summary (PDF 378KB, 4 pages)
• How to Read this Report (PDF 120KB, 1 page)



• What is Public Health? (Chapter 1)
• Determinants and Disparities (Chapter 2)
  * revised
• Risk Factors (Chapter 3) * revised
• Who Lives in Peel region?
  (Chapter 4)
• How Healthy are the Residents of Peel? (Chapter 5)
• Reproductive and Perinatal Health (Chapter 6)
• Heart Disease and Stroke (Chapter 7)
• Cancer (Chapter 8)
• Lung Disease (Chapter 9)
• Injuries (Chapter 10)
• Dental Health (Chapter 11)
• Mental Health (Chapter 12)
• Infectious Disease (Chapter 13)
• The Health of Cities (Chapter 14)
• Focus on Overweight, Obesity and Diabetes (Chapter 15)
• The Physical Environment (Chapter 16)
• Health Services (Chapter 17)
• Preventing Chronic Disease (Chapter 18) * revised
• Data Analysis Issues and Next Steps (Chapter 19, PDF 261KB, 2 pages)
• Acknowledgements (Chapter 20, PDF 113KB, 1 page)
• Data Sources and Limitations (Chapter 21, PDF 611KB, 10 pages)
• Data Methods (Chapter 22, PDF 883KB, 11 pages)
• Text References (Chapter 23, PDF 1.09MB, 19 pages)
• Data References (Chapter 24, PDF 111KB, 1 page)

A complete copy of the report (upto and including Chapter 19) is available in PDF format: A Picture of Health - A Comprehensive Report on Health in Peel 2008. (PDF 22.8MB, 200 pages)

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* Please note - changes have been made to the low risk drinking analysis on pages 11, 12, 24, 25 and 189 effective August 11, 2009