Appendix C: The Chief Public Health Officer's Report on the State of Public Health in Canada 2014 – Links to past annual reports

Appendix C: The Chief Public Health Officer's Reports on the State of Public Health in Canada

The Public Health Agency of Canada Act requires the Chief Public Health Officer to submit an annual report on the state of public health in Canada to the Minister of Health within six months of the end of each fiscal year. The Minister lays the report before each House of Parliament on any of the first 15 days on which the House is sitting after receipt of the report.^{Footnote 1}

The Act specifies that the CPHO:

• may prepare and publish reports on any issue related to public health;
• may, in any report, refer to public health problems and their causes, as well as any measures that may, in his or her opinion, be effective in preventing or resolving those problems; and
• must, to the extent possible, set out the source of the data and information used in the preparation of the report and methodology employed to arrive at the report’s findings, conclusions or recommendations.^{Footnote 1}

Previous reports from the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada are shown below.