Critical Illness Statistics

Longer waiting period in public care system (Source : Fraser Institute)

	Neurosurgery is more than four months
	Cancer radiation treatment, over two months
	The average wait for treatment after consulting a specialist for coronary bypass clocks in at up to 52 weeks
	Four to 12 weeks for angioplasty
	1 in 2 heart attack victims are under the age of 65

Statistics of Heart Attack (Source : Heart & Stroke Foundation)

	1 in 4 Canadians will contract some form of heart disease
	75,000 Canadians suffer heart attacks each year
	Heart disease costs the Canadian economy approximately $19 billion every year in medical services, hospitalization expenses, loss of income and loss of productivity
	The rate of death among patients hospitalized for heart attacks has been decreased by half, from 16 per cent to 8 per cent
	1 in 2 heart attack victims are under the age of 65

Statistics of Stroke (Source : Heart & Stroke Foundation)

	50,000 Canadians suffer a stroke each year
	75% survive the initial event
	strokes are the leading cause of neurological disability
	1/3 of stroke victims are under the age of 65
	60% of stroke victims will be left with a disability

Statistics of Cancer (Source : Canadian Cancer Society)

	more than 130,000 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer this year
	over 60,000 people in Canada will die this year from the disease
	1 in 3 Canadians will develop cancer in their lifetime
	1 in 9 women will develop breast cancer
	1 in 3 women and 1 in 2.5 men will develop cancer in their lifetime.

Statistics of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (Source : Heart & Stroke Foundation)

	bypass surgery is performed more on men than women by a ratio of nearly 4 to 1
	there are approximately 11,000 bypass surgeries performed in Canada each year
	the rate at which bypass surgery is performed on people age 65 and older has increased

Statistics of Multiple Sclerosis (Source: Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada)

	More than 50,000 Canadians have Multiple Sclerosis
	MS is the most common neurological disease among young Canadians
	Canadians have one of the highest rates of MS in the world.
	Women are twice as likely to develop MS as men

Statistics of Parkinsons Disease (Source: The Parkinson's Foundation of Canada)

	30% of all Parkinson's patients are under 50
	20% of all Parkinson's patients are under 40
	there are approximately 80,000 - 100,000 Canadians suffering from Parkinson's

Statistics of Paralysis
(Source : The National Spinal Cord Injury Association of Canada)

	There is an estimated 900 Canadians who sustain a spinal cord injury each year
	More than 30,000 Canadians suffer from paralysis of 2 or more limbs
	Most persons who suffer spinal cord injury are between 16 and 30 years of age
	The most common causes of spinal cord injury are car collisions and falls

Statistics of Alzheimers Disease (Source: The Canadian Alzheimer Society)

	Alzheimer Disease is the fourth leading cause of death in Canada
	Every year approximately 10,000 Canadians die from Alzheimer's
	Approximately 1 in 100 Canadians suffer from Alzheimer's disease
	There are approximately 22,000 people in Metro Toronto with Alzheimer's
	The disease occurs in 8% of the general population over 60

Statistics of Kidney Failure
(Source: The Kidney Foundation of Canada)

	Kidney disease ranks sixth among diseases causing death in Canada
	Each day an average of 8 Canadians learn that their kidneys have failed
	Approximately 2000 Canadians are on a waiting list for kidney transplant
	351 kidney transplants were performed in Ontario in 1995
	1 in 10 will develop kidney stones at some point in their lives

Statistics of Deafness
(Source: Canadian Hearing Society)

	280,000 Canadians are deaf
	1,120,000 Canadians are hard of hearing
	1,400,000 do not use amplification
	There are more than 2,800,000 Canadians with hearing loss

Statistics of Occupational HIV
(Source: The Canadian Aids Society)

	Approximately 4.4 million health care workers suffer 800,000 needle sticks and other injuries from sharp objects annually
	An estimated 16,000 of these objects are contaminated with HIV