This report was developed by Public Health Ontario’s Raw Milk Working Group to serve as a resource for Ontario public health professionals. Topics include microbiological and non-microbiological contamination of raw milk; human illness following raw milk consumption; possible benefits of raw milk consumption and/or harms of milk pasteurization; and portable testing.

The guidelines provide the evidence, rationale, and recommendations to effectively diagnose and treat persons infected with N. gonorrhea. The recommendations are based on current scientific evidence, Ontario epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of N. gonorrhea, and available laboratory testing methods in Ontario.

Youth population health assessment is vital to the health and well-being of youth in Ontario. However, a coordinated and integrated system of data collection, measurement and assessment is currently lacking within the province.

Measuring the Health of Infants, Children and Youth for Public Health in Ontario: Indicators, Gaps and Recommendations for Moving Forward charts a path forward for population health assessment and surveillance in infants, children and youth for the public health sector in Ontario.

This report is a comprehensive review of the comparability of the Air Quality Index (AQI) and the Air Quality Health Index (AQHI). In Canada, the AQI and AQHI are being used to measure ambient levels of air pollution. Using data from Ontario, the report examines the strengths and limitations of the two indices of air quality.

The third and final report in a series of burden of disease reports produced with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), this study quantifies the impact of mental illness and addictions in Ontario. The findings of this study highlight the need for health care providers, practitioners, policy-makers and researchers to work together to identify effective mental health promotion and mental illness and addiction prevention interventions and improve access to treatment for those suffering from mental illness and addiction.

This report highlights the gaps in available data which affect the ability to create meaningful public health indicators in Ontario related to the Assessment and Surveillance Program Requirements of the Ontario Public Health Standards (OPHS).  Prepared by the Association of Public Health Epidemiologists in Ontario (APHEO) Core Indicators Work Group in Collaboration with Public Health Ontario (PHO) it updates a previous version created prior to the 2008 publication of the OPHS.

This report identifies the APHEO Core Indicators related to specific Population Health Assessment and Surveillance Requirements in the Ontario Public Health Standards (OPHS), as well as its supporting Population Health and Assessment and Surveillance (PHAS) Protocol.  Prepared by the Association of Public Health Epidemiologists in Ontario (APHEO) Core Indicators Work Group in Collaboration with Public Health Ontario (PHO) it provides hyperlinks to the APHEO webpage for a detailed description on each of the specific indicators.

This report provides a summary of oral health status and access to dental care among different socio-demographic subgroups in Ontario, using data from the 2005 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). This project was jointly funded by Public Health Ontario (PHO), the Population Health Improvement Research Network of the Applied Health Research Initiative, Government of Ontario and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research.

The Technical Report: Update on Lyme Disease Prevention and Control was created for the field following a number of requests from Ontario public health units and the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health. PHO staff in the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control team and the Public Health Ontario Laboratories developed the technical report to address issues raised and to summarize the available science and evidence.

This report examines the burden of five behavioural health risks – smoking, unhealthy alcohol consumption, poor diet, physical inactivity and high stress – and their impact on life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy in Ontario. The findings of this joint study released by PHO and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) expand our understanding of healthy living by quantifying the impact of the five health risks on Ontarians’ overall health.

Public Health Ontario has partnered with Cancer Care Ontario on report to address the burden of chronic disease in Ontario. The report reviews evidence in support of reducing population-level exposure risk factors for chronic disease, building Ontario’s capacity for chronic disease prevention and ensuring all Ontarians have equal opportunities for health. It contains 22 evidence-informed recommendations for actions to prevent chronic disease.