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PEI Respiratory Illness Summary 2023-2024 Season
2024-05-01
Week 17 – April 21 to April 27, 2024
The surveillance period for the 2023-24 PEI Respiratory Illness Summary starts from August 27, 2023 (epidemiological week 35-2023) to August 24, 2024 (epidemiological week 34-2024). Surveillance weeks correspond to the Public...
Harm Reduction Services and Supports
2023-09-07
What is harm reduction?
Harm reduction is any policy, program or service that helps a person or community reduce harms related to substance use without necessarily requiring a decrease in substance use.
Harm reduction works alongside treatment, where the goal is often to decrease substance use....
PEI Annual Influenza Summary
2023-07-18
PEI Annual Influenza Summary - 2022-23 Season
2023-23 Season
Historical PEI influenza season summaries:
2021-22 Season
2020-21 Season - No Lab-confirmed cases in PEI
2019-20 Season
2018-19 Season
2017-18 Season
2016-17 Season
2015-16 Season
2014-15 Season
Preventing Opioid-Related Overdoses
2023-06-27
Opioids are drugs that include prescribed pain relievers, like codeine or morphine, as well as illegal drugs, like heroin. Patients can benefit from opioids that are prescribed and used properly. When opioids are misused, they can be deadly.
Unknowingly, potent opioids like fentanyl may be put in...
PEI COVID-19 and Influenza Surveillance Reports
2023-02-07
Weekly COVID-19 Surveillance Report
Weekly Influenza Summary
Annual Influenza Summaries
PEI Annual Flu Summary - 2018-2019 Season
2019-07-09
The Prince Edward Island Annual Influenza Summary 2018-19 Season is now available.
About the Chief Public Health Officer's Report 2016
2016-06-07
The Chief Public Health Office produces a report every two years to keep the public informed of changing health trends that impact the Island population. Health equity is the focus of the report. Strategic decisions based on the findings of this report can inform health policy and programs, produce...
Chief Public Health Officers Report and Health Trends 2014
2016-03-17
The Prince Edward Island Chief Public Health Officer’s Report and Health Trends 2014 summarizes key health information from a variety of sources, both federal and provincial. The intent of the report is to examine health trends on PEI, describe Chief Public Health Office (CPHO) programs aimed at...
Pesticides and Human Health
2016-03-17
In 2014/2015, the Chief Public Health Office reviewed research conducted between 2004-2015 on the topic of pesticides and human health. The following questions and answers summarize the study’s purpose, methods, results and conclusions.
1. What was the purpose of the study?
The purpose of the...