The indicators are organized into four categories: health status, including health conditions, mortality rates, measures of well-being; non-medical determinants of health - socio-economic characteristics and health behaviours; health system performance - measures of accessibility, appropriateness, effectiveness of health care services; and community and health system characteristics - contextual information.
Year-to-date production was 15 952 843 metric bundles, down 16.1% from 19 021 144 metric bundles produced during the same period in 2000.