Canada’s health care workers are the backbone of our health system, and understanding their well-being is integral to planning for a safe and healthy workforce.

We’ve created a new dashboard module on Provider Wellness to help improve understanding of both the physical and mental well-being of Canada’s health workforce. There’s information directly from surveys with health workers on stress, work-life balance, burnout, psychological and physical safety, and workplace culture. You’ll also find data on lost time claims including pan-Canadian statistics on work-related lost time compensation, trends by occupation, and the type of harmful events or injuries that are most commonly associated with lost time claims. Recognizing that unpaid caregivers are an integral part of the health system, we’ve also included data on caregivers experiencing distress.

Leveraging a mixture of survey and administrative data of health care providers, we’ve brought together data from four agencies: Statistic’s Canada’s Canadian Community Health Survey, Health Standards Organization’s Global Workforce Survey, CIHI’s Caregiver Distress Indicator, and lost time claims from the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada.

We hope that having all of this data easily accessible in one place will provide employers, planners, and providers themselves with a better understanding of the current situation and offer them meaningful information as they make plans to support and strengthen our health workforce. This is just the start to pull data that sits across different sources into one place to help us understand how health care workers across the country are doing, and support conversations on how to further close data gaps on this crucial topic.