Reports

Annual newsletter

Health@Simcoe Muskoka is an annual look at both ongoing activities and the new public health issues emerging in our changing world. This document includes the agency’s annual report. 

2010-11 Health @ Simcoe Muskoka

2009-10 Health @ Simcoe Muskoka

2008-09 Health @ Simcoe Muskoka

2007 Health@Simcoe Muskoka

Focus on Health Stats Reports

Periodically through the year the health unit compiles known data about the community's health, focusing on special topics. Statistics and epidemiological information paint a clear picture of how people's health is affected by specific influences. To review these reports, click here.

The Cost of Healthy Eating in Simcoe and Muskoka

Results of the annual Nutritious Food Basket (NFB) survey of food prices in grocery stores across Simcoe and Muskoka. Used to see how affordable a nutritious diet actually is when local rents and income from social assistance, pensions or minimum wage work are considered.

Read the 2011 Nutritious Food Basket Report  (PDF)

 

Evaluation Report - Comprehensive Workplace Health Pilot Project

Review of a two-year nine workplace pilot into workplace health programming. 

 

Evaluation of Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s Planning, Preparation and Response to the G8 Summit

Summarizes the health unit's role in preparation and response to the G8 Summit held in Huntsville, June 2010.

Healthy Steps @ Work evaluation report, 2010

Reviewing a one-year test of an online toolkit for workplaces to help bring in changes for the benefit of employee health.  

Response to pH1N1 in Simcoe and Muskoka 2009

An evaluation of health unit response to the pH1N1 outbreak of 2009. Covers April 2009 to December 2009, with a focus on the second wave and the Mass Immunization Clinics (October 26 to December 16, 2009).  

2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Activity and Impacts Report

An epidemiological report on the H1N1 influenza pandemic, comparing local impact to: provincial impact, seasonal influenza, and scenarios within the health unit's pandemic plan.